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Crossing the icy unknown, hunting climate clues

(AP) -- On the 27th day of their trek, a dozen "black specks" of humanity crawling across Antarctica's vast white silence, Lou Albershardt heard a sound she'd never heard in two decades on the ice.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 21, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (29) | comments 0

The secret life of water at very low temperatures

The secret life of water just got weirder. For years water has been known to exist in 15 phases -- not just the merry threesome of solid, liquid and gas from grade school science. Now, University of Utah chemists ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jun 16, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (17) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Scientists Discover Pentagonal Ice

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Liverpool have discovered a five-sided ice chain structure that could be used to modify future weather patterns.

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Apr 07, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (15) | comments 2

Melting sea ice major cause of warming in Arctic, new study reveals

Melting sea ice has been shown to be a major cause of warming in the Arctic according to a University of Melbourne, Australia study.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 28, 2010 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (16) | comments 23 | with audio podcast

Surprise hidden in Titan's smog: Cirrus-like clouds

Every day is a bad-air day on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Blanketed by haze far worse than any smog belched out in Los Angeles, Beijing or even Sherlock Holmes's London, the moon looks like a dirty orange ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

First direct observations of biological particles in high-altitude ice clouds

A team of UC San Diego-led atmospheric chemistry researchers moved closer to what is considered the "holy grail" of climate change science when it made the first-ever direct detection of biological particles ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 17, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (10) | comments 1

It's raining pentagons

This week's Nature Materials (09 March 2009) reveals how an international team of scientists led by researchers at the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) at UCL have discovered a novel one dimensional ice ch ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 08, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (9) | comments 2

Predicting Arctic sea ice loss

(PhysOrg.com) -- Arctic clouds are strongly tied to Arctic sea ice loss. To find the strength of those ties, a team led by scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory tested a prominent climate model ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (10) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Atmospheric lead causes clouds to form more easily, could change pattern of rain and snow

(PhysOrg.com) -- By sampling clouds -- and making their own -- researchers have shown for the first time a direct relation between lead in the sky and the formation of ice crystals that foster clouds. The ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 19, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 15

Studying ice crystals to understand the cloud-climate connection

(PhysOrg.com) -- Beginning in mid-December, scientists will undertake a special mission to squeeze the secrets out of ice crystals in cirrus clouds. The SPARTICUS, or Small Particles in Cirrus, campaign will ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Aircraft emissions could influence climate change through cloud formation

(PhysOrg.com) -- Aircraft emissions can affect the properties of cirrus clouds, contributing to climate change. This was a key finding from PNNL scientist Dr. Xiaohong Liu and his colleagues from a recent ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (9) | comments 2

Brightening clouds: Atmospheric scientists evaluate a technique for reflecting more sunlight back to space

(PhysOrg.com) -- What happens when tiny seawater particles are intentionally injected into low clouds over the ocean? To answer this question, scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the National ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 11, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Declining sea ice to lead to cloudier Arctic: study

Arctic sea ice has been declining over the past several decades as global climate has warmed. In fact, sea ice has declined more quickly than many models predicted, indicating that climate models may not be correctly representing ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Cold skies: Researchers increase our understanding of how ice clouds form

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of atmospheric researchers designed a new computational module that helps scientists better understand how ice crystals form in the atmosphere. The team, including Dr. Xiaohong Liu ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 03, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Clouds get in the way on Mars

The science team from the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter wanted to take another look at a region of icy sand dunes on Mars to look for seasonal changes as spring is now arriving on the Red ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1