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

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

Ice nucleation — the process by which ice crystals form — is important in diverse fields such as meteorology, biology and astrophysics. Now, Angelos Michaelides from the Fritz-Haber-Institut in Berlin ...