Researchers have developed a novel method to detect and study how ice forms in mixed-phase clouds, significantly boosting ...

The science of snowflakes: See how they form and why no two are ever alike Snow is made up of trillions of tiny ice crystals that make snowflakes, with not one alike. Here's how they form.

Findings may have wide-ranging implications, from the origins of life to the characterisation of technological glasses ...

Almost all of them are caused by tiny ice crystals suspended in the air. Sometimes those crystals are very high up in the atmosphere, where it’s cold all the time, so you can see them in summer ...

As ice crystals grow and clump together, they become too heavy to stay aloft. With the help of gravity, they begin to fall back down through and eventually out of the cloud.