Ice cream seems like a simple concept. Take some dairy, add some sugar and flavors and freeze. But to get a perfectly creamy, smoothly textured frozen treat, we need more than just a low temperature — ...

When Did Cloud Seeding Start? This method started in 1946 by scientists at the General Electric Research Laboratory. They discovered that they could use silver iodide -- an inorganic compound -- and ...

A photographer in the Swiss Alps has captured a remarkable image of an "ice halo," the moment ice crystals freeze in midair, creating a halo effect around the Sun. Michael Schneider, a photographer in ...

On cold winter mornings, 83-year-old Len Burgess wakes up before dawn, picks up his camera, and checks the storm windows on his Danvers, Massachusetts, home. When conditions are just right, he can ...

Scientists from UCL and the University of Cambridge have revealed that "space ice"—long thought to be completely disordered—is actually sprinkled with tiny crystals, changing our fundamental ...