Unlocking the secret of snow. As skiers and riders, we all know snow. It blankets the mountains with deep powder during the cold winter months offering endless ground for play. But what if I told you ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Molecule by molecule, snowflakes grow from water vapors in the air and eventually fall to earth. After getting slammed with nearly ...

Fresh snow can look like a blank sheet of paper, so bright it almost hurts to stare at in midday sun. Yet at the microscopic level, those flakes are not white at all, and the color we think we see is ...

New snow science topic courtesy of the UAC. This post is re-published from the Utah Avalanche Center. It is written by Evelyn Lees and was originally released in 2013. When it comes to wet snow ...

As the deep days of winter set in, millions across the country will have to contend with snow, but they won't all face the same conditions. Some will ski over fluffy snowbanks, while others will find ...

Surprisingly, the magic of snowflakes often begins with dust in the air. All it takes is for a cold drop of water to freeze on one of these particles, creating an ice crystal. Because every crystal ...

It turns out that there’s a whole lot of work that goes into blowing frozen droplets of water onto ski slopes. This is the science of snowmaking. Most anyone who has ever gone skiing or snowboarding ...

A physics professor gives us a lesson in snowflake science while our own AJ Burnett tells us how and why ice storms form. We also meet a local college student who studied glaciers in Alaska and find ...