(1) For the blockchain, see Avalanche blockchain. (2) In cryptography, the avalanche effect is the desired consequence of a well-designed algorithm. It means that if only one bit of the input is ...

Scientists often compare this effect to an avalanche of snow, where one small lump of snow starts falling, pushing on other nearby lumps, until the entire mountainside of snow is tumbling down in ...

An avalanche watch will be in effect until Friday as a powerful nor’easter is expected to create dangerous conditions in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. The Mount Washington Avalanche ...

The Washington Cascades, Mount Hood and the Olympic Mountains are at risk of an avalanches during an ongoing winter storm.