Drawing on 35 years of satellite observations, an international research team led by ETH Zurich found that mineral dust – ...

Dust particles from deserts promote ice formation in clouds. This discovery highlights the importance of aerosols for ...

Broadly, water ice falls into two distinct categories. Crystalline ice is what we have here on Earth, where the atoms are arranged in a neat crystalline lattice. In space, scientists thought, ice ...

Crystals — whether ice in the air or salt in the water — may explain why lightning over oceans is more powerful than lightning over land By Special to National Post Published Jun 22, 2016 ...

Platform for the simultaneous detection of nano-ice nuclei, cloud droplets, and ice crystals: Schematic of McGill Real-Time Ice Nucleation Chamber (MRINC), AI-Nano-DIHM, and aerosol sizers.

"Space ice" contains tiny crystals and is not a completely disordered material like liquid water, as previously assumed, according to a new study by scientists at UCL (University College London ...

Scientists from UCL and the University of Cambridge have revealed that "space ice"—long thought to be completely disordered—is actually sprinkled with tiny crystals, changing our fundamental ...