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Research team identifies common environmental conditions for the formation of contrails and provides initial insights into ...

Ever looked up at the clouds and wondered where they came from? That's exactly what atmospheric researcher Lubna Dada studies at the Paul Scherrer Institute. She is part of an international project ...

Have you ever looked up at the clouds in the sky and wondered how they form? Understanding cloud formation is really important for studying weather patterns and making accurate forecasts. Those clouds ...

SO much attention has been given of late years to the study of clouds, and so many names have been suggested by different writers for the same form of cloud, that the whole question of cloud forms and ...

A PHOTOGRAPH of a remarkable cloud, of which a reproduction is shown in Fig. 1, has been received from Prof. I. S. Astapowitsch, of the Astronomical Institute, Fontanka 34, Leningrad. It was observed ...

Contrails in the blue sky remind us of daily air traffic—and its impact on the climate. However, the effect of contrails on ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has made the first direct analysis of clouds on a nearby alien world. These aren’t just made of water vapor but also sand, which would move around the planet much like ...