Geiger: Three Views of Clouds

Beth Geiger is busy recruiting the next generation of scientists. In “Cool Jobs: Head in the Clouds” for Science News for Students, Beth tells how three types of scientists study clouds. You don’t have to be a student to marvel at what they are...

Ruth: Cloudgazer

Natural history writer Maria Mudd Ruth launches a new book next month. In A Sideways Look at Clouds, Maria explores the phenomena that bring our beloved Northwest rain. Most people don’t know much about clouds, Maria found, so she set out to educate herself and...

Rickey: A Cloud is Born

Tom Rickey, writing for Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, tells about making a cloud in a laboratory —including a video. The lab clouds are teeny specimens, but the molecular details of their formation help environmental scientists understand the conditions that...