News tagged with snow crystals

Snowflake science: Physicist explains why snowflakes are so thin and flat

(PhysOrg.com) -- We've all heard that no two snowflakes are alike. Caltech professor of physics Kenneth Libbrecht will tell you that this has to do with the ever-changing conditions in the clouds where snow ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Make your own flake

With little more than a plastic soda bottle, some fishing line, a sponge, and dry ice, anyone can make it snow, make it snow, make it snow... one flake at a time.

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 20, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In search of speed

In ski sports, it's often only a second that separates the winners from the losers. Using equipment made of the right materials can therefore make all the difference. Researchers are simulating the gliding ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 08, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Snowflake chemistry could give clues about ozone depletion

There is more to the snowflake than its ability to delight schoolchildren and snarl traffic.

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists use low-gravity space station lab to study crystal growth

A research project 10 years in the making is now orbiting the Earth, much to the delight of its creator Rohit Trivedi, a senior metallurgist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory. Equipment recently ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (9) | comments 1

Lovely ‘snowfakes’ mimic nature, advance science

(PhysOrg.com) -- Exquisitely detailed and beautifully symmetrical, the snowflakes that David Griffeath makes are icy jewels of art.

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Feb 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0