a blog by the NSF Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology
With winter and our first snowfall right around the corner where I live in Wisconsin, I am really looking forward to playing in the snow! One of my favorite activities is to throw snowballs up in the air while on a walk with my dog, Ginny. She jumps to catch the snowball on its way …
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Have you ever felt your nose hairs freeze? Many of us in the midwest and northeast regions of the United States are getting the chance this winter as severe cold weather has created some dangerous (as well as nasally weird) conditions. So, whether you're stuck inside today because you could get frostbite after 5 minutes …
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Recently I had the fortune to visit the state of Alaska. While there, I took a boat trip around the Kenai Peninsula, where there are glaciers moving from the Harding Icefield toward the ocean. As our tour boat approached Holgate Glacier, I was awed by the immense size of this giant wall of ice, but …
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In the CSN, we like to study and understand small things. Everyone knows the adage “no two snowflakes are alike,” but what actually goes into creating this variety of shapes at a molecular level? It seems fitting, as we’re experiencing the end of snowy weather here in the Midwestern U.S., to dig into the science …
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