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 ...
Dec 06, 2011 |
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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.
Dec 20, 2010 |
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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 ...
Jan 08, 2010 |
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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
Dec 07, 2009 |
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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 ...
Sep 21, 2009 |
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Lovely ‘snowfakes’ mimic nature, advance science
(PhysOrg.com) -- Exquisitely detailed and beautifully symmetrical, the snowflakes that David Griffeath makes are icy jewels of art.
Feb 24, 2009 |
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