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 to make snowflakes, with not one alike. Here's how they form.
Scientists understood physics of climate change in the 1800s – thanks to a woman named Eunice Foote
(THE CONVERSATION) Long before the current political divide over climate change, and even before the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865), an American scientist named Eunice Foote documented the underlying ...
Research reveals how Earth got its ice caps
The cool conditions which have allowed ice caps to form on Earth are rare events in the planet's history and require many ...