http://sbp.teledyn.com/node/893 Comments for "The Living Snow" en http://sbp.teledyn.com/node/893 <p><a href="http://www.units.muohio.edu/cryolab/publications/invertpubs.htm"><img src="http://www.units.muohio.edu/cryolab/publications/images/woollybear2_2.jpg" /></a>All that beautiful crystaline speckled snow out there, here's something we probably already knew: It's <em>ALIVE!</em> No, seriously ...<br /> <blockquote><cite class="blog-source">Scientists have long known that the ice crystals in clouds which become rain or snow need to cling to some kind of particle, called ice nucleators, in order to form in temperatures above minus 40 degrees Celsius.<br /> But they did not realize, until now, that the most active particles involved in this process are living ones, Christner said.</p> http://sbp.teledyn.com/node/893#comments Ecology Natural Spaces Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:06:12 -0500 garym 893 at http://sbp.teledyn.com