BEIJING, 16 November (BelTA - Xinhua). - Zhang Chao, an avid micrograph enthusiast from Beijing, recently reproduced a number of photographs of snowflakes pictured under his microscope for the public, ...

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From table salt to snowflakes, and from gemstones to diamonds—we encounter crystals everywhere in daily life, usually cubic ...

With more smartphones equipped with macro lenses, you no longer need to haul around a big camera to capture decent views of delicate snowflakes. Look for where they tumble down across cold windshields ...

The first person to photograph a single snowflake captured these images. Wilson A. Bentley used a microscope with his camera—plus years of trial and error—to get a photo of an individual snowflake in ...

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 ...