As snow powers the Winter Olympics, you probably underestimate the simple snowflake. For starters, snow isn't technically ...

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 ...

Unlocking the secret of snow. As skiers and riders, we all know snow. It blankets the mountains with deep powder during the cold winter months offering endless ground for play. But what if I told you ...

Meteorologist Stevie Daniels shares how you can create your own snow using the power of SCIENCE, in this Science with Stevie!

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, ...

The Winter Olympic Games, this year hosted in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, have increasingly had to rely on human-made snow due to climate change. Shrinking snowpacks, rising temperatures, ...

Snow looks white in the way salt, sugar, or crushed ice looks white. Obvious at first glance. Almost boring. But if you stop and think about it for a second, it feels a little strange. Snow is frozen ...

University Libraries’ Associate Professor and Head of DeLaMare Science and Engineering Library Tara Radniecki will present and discuss what she considers a timely and quintessential Libraries project ...

In the early 1970s, Dimitrije Milovich and Wayne Stoveken began building boards meant specifically to surf the snow, testing ...

Snow is made of tiny ice crystals that can transform into a variety of intricate symmetrical patterns forming a beautiful snowflake.

Perched atop Donner Pass, well over 7,000 feet, sits the Central Sierra Snow Lab, a research field station responsible for maintaining the longest running snowpack measurement in the West. Established ...