Benjamin Rasmussen To understand what’s happening at the top of a snow-covered mountain, you have to dig. Granular analysis of snowflakes can tell local ski resorts and government agencies which layers of snow are destined for collapse. But that process isn’t exactly scalable. “We can’t dig snow pits every 100 feet over the whole state,” […]

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