Is it true that two snowflakes can't be identical and if not, what are the odds? The specific number of snowflake types depends on who you ask. Photographer Wilson Alwyn Bentley took pictures of ...

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 ...

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 ...

They say that no two snowflakes are the same. That may be true, but snowflakes share some striking similarities. Take a look at these snowflakes: See a pattern? It may not be immediately clear, but ...

A snowflake begins its life as water vapor in the air that converts directly into ice crystals without first becoming liquid water. If hundreds or even thousands of these tiny ice crystals collide and ...

It starts very high in the sky, where temperatures are always well below freezing. One molecule of water adheres to a tiny ice crystal, and then another. They pile on in the shape of hexagons until, ...

Every snowflake is different. But while each snowflake itself may be different from the one that came before it, the crystalline shapes that make up all these special little snowflakes are actually ...

As winter settles in, many of us are getting an up-close look at more snowflakes than we might care to. Let’s take a moment to look at just what forces are shaping (literally) our winter weather. Top ...

"I read your article about the biggest snowflakes, and was wondering what causes the difference in size of the flakes. We get 'snow pellets' here along with what a co-worker called 'cotton ball flakes ...

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