Farmer Wilson Bentley was the first to photograph the tiny snow crystals individually, and his collection reveals that each ...

In the iconic "Sound of Music" score, "My Favorite Things," a young Julie Andrews lists snowflakes as objects that bring her ...

A few centuries back, advancements in the art of lens crafting and the innovations of unknown inventors led to the emergence of the microscope. Suddenly, people had a window into the microscopic world ...

The next time we get snow showers (which have been hard to come by this winter and last winter), see if you can catch a couple and look very closely (or pull out a magnifying glass). You'll see that ...

A recent post in the subreddit r/answers cast doubt on an age-old truism, asking how it is "really possible no two snowflakes can be identical" — a reference to the claim that no two snowflakes are ...

Snowflakes drifting down on a winter day look like tiny miracles, each one resembling a frozen artwork sculpted by invisible hands, catching the light just right. Through the journey of life, we have ...