ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Supercooled water sounds smooth enough to be served at espresso bars, but instead it hangs out in Earth's atmosphere, unpredictably freezing on airplane wings and hampering the ...

Antarctica is a notoriously icy place, and yet its clouds, new research reveals, are surprisingly lacking in the stuff. Tiny ...

Supercooling, a state where liquids do not solidify even below their normal freezing point, still puzzles scientists today. A good example of this phenomenon is found everyday in meteorology: clouds ...

There are fewer ice nuclei in the air above the large ice surfaces of Antarctica than anywhere else in the world. This is the ...

Everyone understands how amazing water is and how important it is to life on the planet Earth. 71% of the Earth is comprised of water and water makes up approximately 60% of the human body. There is ...

Planes flying over rain or snow can intensify the precipitation by as much as 10-fold, according to a new study. The rain- and snow-bursts are not caused by emissions from the aircraft but are the ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Winter mornings are characteristically cold and typically involve frost on the ground, but did you know that not all water freezes when the temperature drops below 32 degrees? In ...

When water gets cold enough, it turns into ice. But what if the seemingly most-obvious physics lesson you know wasn’t true? What if water just got colder and colder? Under the right conditions, it can ...

Ice is far more complicated than most of us realize, with over 20 different varieties known to science, forming under various combinations of pressure and temperature. The kind we use to chill our ...

Exploring the properties of supercooled liquid water - the bane of airplane wings and climate theorists - investigators are mounting an expedition to fly huge tethered balloons in Alaska this coming ...