Salt left on sublimating sea ice could have reflected 93% of sunlight, helping an already frozen Earth become even colder.

Pure water freezes only at around -38°C (-36°F). Tiny mineral dust particles act as so-called ice nucleators—crystallization ...

This outdoors column uses a frosty August camping trip near Stanley to remind campers to switch to fall gear, layer clothing ...

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

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

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

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, ...

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

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 ...