The cleanest chamber ever built is allowing researchers at CERN to track the microscopic processes governing cloud formation, finds Matthew Chalmers Clean climate The CLOUD experiment is sensitive to ...

The bad news about clouds: We know even less about them than we thought we did. The good news: We might be on our way to figuring them out. A new cloud chamber that contains man-made air and uses a ...

With experiments performed in the CLOUD chamber at CERN, researchers aimed to determine whether isoprene oxygenated organic molecules could form new particles under upper-tropospheric conditions.

Washington, D.C., August 25, 2011 — The long-anticipated CERN study of the impact of cosmic rays on formation of clouds in the atmosphere, published today in Nature, should prompt a major revision of ...

As part of the international CLOUD project at the nuclear research centre CERN, researchers at PSI have identified so-called sesquiterpenes – gaseous hydrocarbons that are released by plants – as ...