Paulina Rowińska
Science journalist (Quanta Magazine) who wrote about competing theories for why ice is slippery and provided narrative context and explanation of the hypotheses in the episode.
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Feb 20, 2026 • 16min
The surprising enigma of slippery ice
Paulina Rowińska, science journalist who explains competing theories. Daniel Bonn, physics professor who measures ice friction and skating implications. Martin Müser, theoretical physicist who studies surface disorder and proposed the amorphous-layer idea. They discuss pressure-melting limits, frictional heating across temperatures, thin pre-melt layers, and a new amorphization hypothesis as a possible slipperiness winner.
