Snowflake size affects how much snow stays on roofs, helping explain why some storms create heavier and more dangerous snow ...

No two snowflakes may be the same, but models that fail to take these variations into consideration often fall short when ...

In some parts of the deep ocean, it can look like it's snowing. This "marine snow" is the dust and detritus that organisms slough off as they die and decompose. Marine snow can fall several kilometers ...

In Physics of Fluids, researchers model the way snow gathers on a roof based on snowflake size and distribution. The model ...

Learn how bacteria inside marine snow may dissolve shell minerals and influence how the ocean stores carbon.

For many years, the deep ocean has been seen as a nutrient-poor environment where microbes living in the water survive on very limited resources. But new research from the University of Southern ...

As any diver knows, oceans can be cloudy places. Even on sunny days, snow-like particles drift through the water column, obscuring the aquatic world ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

Skiers at Stowe caught a snow devil on the slopes Tuesday.