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Cloud seeding is a weather technique used to get more precipitation out of existing clouds. How do clouds form? To explain ...

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Current climate models have so far been unable to adequately reproduce the clouds over the Southern Ocean around Antarctica.

A new study shows that natural dust particles swirling in from faraway deserts can trigger freezing of clouds in Earth's Northern Hemisphere. This subtle mechanism influences how much sunlight clouds ...

Some atomic nuclei are not shaped like rugby balls, as a longstanding theory suggests, but are instead somewhat flattened, like almonds, according to a new study by Japanese scientists.

Beijing Normal University-led researchers have identified specific high-order thalamic nuclei that drive human conscious perception by activating the prefrontal cortex. Their findings enhance ...

The air will be full of little particulates (fancy term: cloud condensation nuclei). When there are lots of them present, it's difficult for water droplet to grow into cloud droplets, eventually ...

An ancient ice core from Mont Blanc has revealed 12,000 years of climate and human history, making it the oldest Alpine ice ...

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