From large, wet flakes to hard, barrel-shaped pellets, snow comes in many forms. While all snowflakes start in the same basic way, variations in temperature and humidity while they are forming ...

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

Have you ever noticed snowflakes can look very different? Whether the snow is wet and fluffy or hard and icy can impact the shape of each individual snowflake! A snowflake begins to form when an ...

Dr Kenneth Libbrecht has unpacked the riddles of ‘capped column’ and triangular snowflakes – but outside his lab, the best specimens are becoming rarer From crystalline columns to fern-like stars, ...

When there's a lot of snow out there, you can either make a snowman, a snow angel, or just X-ray the snowflakes. And if you do the latter, you can figure out how many different designs snowflakes take ...

With a camera-equipped microscope of his own making, Kenneth G. Libbrecht shoots some of the world’s most stunning photographs of snowflakes. Since October, four of the physicist’s images have adorned ...

Allison Futterman is a Charlotte, N.C.-based writer whose science, history, and medical/health writing has appeared on a variety of platforms and in regional and national publications. These include ...