Scientists experimented with cloud seeding to encourage snowfall on China's Muz Taw Glacier. This artificial snow increased ...

Nanoscale imaging shows ice can form across flat microcline surfaces without relying only on cracks or step edges.

Previously, a 2015 study of Antarctic sea ice observed salt crystallizing in cold, windswept ice and found its reflectivity increased as temperatures dropped. And in a 2016 study of simulated Snowball ...

Bengaluru witnessed a striking 22-degree sun halo around noon, with a bright ring appearing around the sun. The optical ...

Earth may have been pushed deeper into a global deep freeze by something surprisingly ordinary: salt. Around 700 million years ago, Earth entered periods of extreme glaciation known as Snowball Earth, ...

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A shopper outside Neiman Marcus at the Galleria on South Post Oak Boulevard looked up recently and caught something most ...

A prismatic halo surrounds the midday sun above Downtown Santa Cruz. According to the National Weather Service website, Earth ...

Deep in Siberia, a small salamander does something that should be biologically impossible, surviving temperatures that would ...

Ever wonder why the ice at your favorite cocktail bar looks like glass, while the cubes from your freezer look like tiny frozen clouds? It’s not magic; it’s a little bit of temperature science. When a ...

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Florian Schneider, Rasmus Väinö Erik Nilsson, Ralf Bechstein, Hans-Georg Stammler, Bernhard Reischl, Thomas Koop, Angelika Kühnle, Tobias Dickbreder: Ice nucleation on microcline (001) in the absence ...