As a professor of atmospheric and planetary sciences, I’ve studied how ice crystals floating in the sky become the snow that coats the ground. It all starts in the clouds. Clouds form when air ...

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As ice crystals grow and clump together, they become too heavy to stay aloft. With the help of gravity, they begin to fall back down through and eventually out of the cloud.

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Libbrecht is a professor at the California Institute of Technology where he specialises in the dynamics of ice crystal formation. In our interview, he explains the complex physics at play when ...