As the ice crystal falls to the ground, water vapor freezes onto the primary crystal, building new crystals. Microscopic view of snowflakes by Wilson Bentley. From the Annual Summary of the ...

The Universe’s most abundant ice isn’t formless—it’s secretly laced with crystals. And that might change how we think about ...

The science of snowflakes: See how they form and why no two are ever alike Snow is made up of trillions of tiny ice crystals that make snowflakes, with not one alike.

The ice crystals for As the sun rose over a bitterly cold Minnesota earlier this week, professional photographer Mike Shaw had some fun creating bubbles with a cookie cutter and watching as they ...

Some of Len Burgess’s ice crystal photography. Photo courtesy of Len Burgess. “I tried cleaning the storm windows once and didn’t get good crystals,” he added.

Talk about a winter wonderland! Highest EVER resolution photos of snowflakes show the intricate ice crystals in stunning detail. A former Microsoft CTO spent 18 months building his custom 100MP ...

In understanding snow crystals, it is important to note that they are not frozen raindrops. In the United States, we would refer to frozen raindrops as sleet, a type of ice pellet.