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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...