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 as cloud seeding, typically involves dispersing small silver iodide ...

MADISON, Wis. — Stand on the ocean’s shore and take a big whiff of the salt spray and you’ll smell the unmistakably pungent scent of the sea. That ripe, almost rotting smell? That’s sulfur. Marine ...

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

An international team led by Japanese scientists has generated significant findings that highlight the impact of high-latitude dusts on the conversion of clouds' water droplets to ice - or glaciation ...

Particle physics has been the mother of invention, at least as far as instrumentation is concerned. One of those inventions was the cloud chamber, which is a chamber of gas that is supersaturated with ...

J. Geophys. Res. 118, 1945–1954 (2013). The martian atmosphere has clouds composed of both water and carbon dioxide ice, but the processes by which these clouds form seem to be different to those on ...

Water is everywhere and comes in many forms: snow, sleet, hail, hoarfrost, and so on. However, despite water being so commonplace, scientists still do not fully understand the predominant physical ...

Scientists have generated significant findings that highlight the impact of high-latitude dusts on the conversion of clouds' water droplets to ice -- or glaciation -- within low-level clouds in the ...

New findings significantly alter the prevailing understanding of how marine life influences clouds and may change the way scientists predict how cloud formation responds to changes in the oceans.