The story points to Austrian mechanic Erwin Perzy in 1900, but records show snow globes existed by at least 1878.

In the deep ocean, thousands of feet below the surface, it looks like it's snowing. At those depths, the water is filled with slowly drifting particles known as "marine snow," part of a never-ending ...

Snowflakes on Mars are smaller than their Earth counterparts, having roughly the same diameter as a human red blood cell, a new study reports. Researchers analyzed observations made by two Mars ...

In the midst of the COVID pandemic, scientists embarked on an ambitious research expedition to the North Atlantic to ...

What Are Atmospheric Aerosols Exactly Aerosols refer to fine solid or liquid particles suspended in the atmosphere, where ...

WASHINGTON — Tiny, sinking flakes of detritus in the ocean fall more slowly thanks to the goop that surrounds each flake, new observations reveal. The invisible mucus makes “comet tails” that surround ...

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The Arctic’s icy expanses are remote, barren, and relatively untouched by human activity. Or at least, they were. Microplastics, which have been found in the Great Lakes, the oceans, and even human ...

It has puzzled scientists for years whether and how bacteria, that live from dissolved organic matter in marine waters, can carry out N 2 fixation. It was assumed that the high levels of oxygen ...

DÜBENDORF, Switzerland (StudyFinds.org) – For those who love to catch the fresh falling snow on their tongues, beware, that might actually be plastic falling from the sky! Researchers from Switzerland ...