In the skies high above, a solitary snowflake is forming. Seeded by a speck of debris—dust, salt, a bacterium carried aloft—the tiny, delicate crystal grows and grows, with ever-more water depositing ...

Snowflakes are like letters from the sky, each crystal a note describing the atmosphere as it falls to the ground. They float effortlessly, but their creation is one of nature’s most complicated ...

Using a special photo-microscope, Kenneth Libbrecht, a Professor of Physics at the California Institute of Technology, has spent the last 11 years catching and photographing snowflakes Credit: ...

Espoo's snow-covered Löfkulla Golf course recently underwent a temporary makeover by snowshoe enthusiasts who joined forces on social media. The idea about creating a massive snow illustration came to ...

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 ...

Individual snowflakes have unique, intricate patterns, but the complicated way in which they fall appears to be universal. Normally, when an object falls to the ground it picks up speed until the ...

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