The Science of Grip: Why Some Rubber Soles Slip on Ice While Others Stick

The Science of Grip: Why Some Rubber Soles Slip on Ice While Others Stick

It was a Tuesday in Montreal, February 2019. I was walking toward a bakery called Kouign-Amann—if you’ve been, you know the line is worth the frostbite—and I was wearing a brand new pair of $400 shearling-lined boots. They looked rugged….