Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Molecule by molecule, snowflakes grow from water vapors in the air and eventually fall to earth. After getting slammed with nearly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. No two winter storms are alike, making them a challenge to forecast. Similarly, no two snowflakes are the same, varying in size, ...

Fresh snow can look like a blank sheet of paper, so bright it almost hurts to stare at in midday sun. Yet at the microscopic level, those flakes are not white at all, and the color we think we see is ...

Walk a few feet. Determine the undisturbed area to test. Push a snow tube into the snow to get a core sample, record the data and repeat. For over 80 years, researchers across the West have followed a ...

Snow! That arrangement of three consonants and one vowel has power. It seizes our attention like few words can. An annual experiment on my social media pages confirms it. Posting just that single ...

As the deep days of winter set in, millions across the country will have to contend with snow, but they won't all face the same conditions. Some will ski over fluffy snowbanks, while others will find ...

Starting this winter through next summer, the U.S. National Science Foundation is supporting three field campaigns, or collaborative research activities, to study atmospheric phenomena. The first will ...

This year’s Winter Olympics has drawn to a close and we are all turning our attention to the Winter Paralympics in March. A perfect time, Newscripts decided, to take a sideways look at some of the ...

Snow days are rare when you live in Hawaii, and so I was pretty excited for a snow day last week in DC. As I was watching the snow fall outside, it put me in mind of another kind of snow, which falls ...

One night earlier this winter, the only road out of Alta, Utah, was closed down. At ski lodges, signs warned guests to stay inside or face fines. Already that season, twenty-two feet of snow had ...

Snow leopards range across Asia’s rugged mountains, where they face mounting threats from climate change, declining wild prey ...