Scientists in New Zealand and Australia working at the level of atoms created something unexpected: tiny metallic snowflakes. Scientists in New Zealand and Australia working at the level of atoms ...

Graduate student Ryan Szczerbinski examines instrumentation called a Differential Emissivity Imaging Disdrometer, or DEID, developed by University of Utah researchers and installed at Alta near the ...

Snowflakes are one of the most beautiful parts of snow. Even though the pattern differs from one snowflake to the next, they all form the same way. Snowflakes form in clouds where the temperature is ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — We’re accustomed to snow here in Western New York, but do you know that all snowflakes develop differently? Western New York knows snow — we ski on it, sled on it, and of course ...

On Jan. 15, 1885, one man sat outside his house in the freezing cold with some black cloth, a turkey feather and a camera, ready to be the first person to catch a snowflake on film. Wilson Bentley was ...

Snow is an all-too-familiar feature of the colder months across much of the U.S., but how much do you know about the science of snowflakes? There will be plenty of snowflakes falling on Wednesday with ...

If you are like us here at the Keystone Science School, you are giddy every time you see that precious white frozen precipitation falling from the sky. We are talking about snow, of course. We love ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Snow flurries flurries fell across parts of Middle Tennessee Wednesday morning. Even though the light snow didn’t cause any impacts, they did stick around long enough for ...

New understanding of modeling soot in the atmosphere underscores the importance of reducing carbon emissions. Black carbon particles — more commonly known as soot — absorb heat in the atmosphere. For ...

NASA has produced the first three-dimensional numerical model of melting snowflakes in the atmosphere. The model provides a better understanding of how snow melts can help scientists recognize the ...