If you look up at the sky on a clear day, chances are you'll notice thin, white clouds—also known as contrails—following behind airplanes.

Permafrost is thawing across the Arctic, releasing microbes and organic materials that have been trapped in the frozen ground for thousands of years. NOAA via Wikimedia Commons In the summer of 2018, ...

Clouds form when water vapor—an invisible gas in the atmosphere—sticks to tiny floating particles, such as dust, and turns into liquid water droplets or ice crystals. In a newly published study, we ...

Fangqun Yu's advanced model simulates contrail formation, proposing ice-nucleating particles to reduce their climate impact ...

Clouds form when water vapor – an invisible gas in the atmosphere – sticks to tiny floating particles, such as dust, and turns into liquid water droplets or ice crystals. In a newly published study, ...

Physicists in Europe have quietly turned a classic holiday symbol into a cutting-edge experiment, 3D-printing a tiny ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Among the most important data ARCSIX scientists collected in Greenland were detailed measurements ...

A team of physicists from the University of Amsterdam has 3D-printed a Christmas tree made entirely of ice, without any ...

When Did Cloud Seeding Start? This method started in 1946 by scientists at the General Electric Research Laboratory. They discovered that they could use silver iodide -- an inorganic compound -- and ...

Masten Space Systems is developing a robotic rover called Rocket M that could one day mine water on the Moon using rocket blasts. An entrant in NASA's Break the Ice challenge, the rover uses rocket ...

The frozen depths of the Antarctic ice-cap might be the best place to catch high-energy neutrinos -- some of nature's most elusive particles -- new research suggests. Astronomers can use these ...