The atmosphere is full of tiny particles floating invisible to the naked eye, yet these microscopic specks wield ...

No one can control the weather, but certain clouds can be deliberately triggered to release rain or snow. The process, known ...

Only one side of a silver crystal has the right structure to trigger ice formation, revealing how these particles help clouds ...

As surface air temperatures rise above 0°C, snow and ice cover melts, resulting in the appearance of snow/ice-free barren and vegetated areas. These newly exposed surfaces release increased amounts of ...

Scientists have developed an artificially intelligent algorithm capable of beating climate scientists at predicting how and when different materials form ice crystals. The program -- IcePic -- could ...

Frost can be formed by either deposition or freezing. Depositional frost, which arranges itself in branching patterns, occurs ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

While it may be the reason behind tires skidding, pipes bursting, and closed roads making traffic a nightmare, ice doesn’t always form as easily as it seems. It often gets an assist from proteins made ...

As the sun rose over a bitterly cold Minnesota earlier this week, professional photographer Mike Shaw had some fun creating bubbles with a cookie cutter and watching as they turned into stunning ice ...

Russian cosmonaut Sergei Korsakov has shared a remarkable photo from his view through one of the International Space Station (ISS) windows. The picture shows ice crystals forming in a pattern very ...