We all grew up hearing that each snowflake is unique, but Moscow-based Alexey Kljatov's macrophotography of snowflakes makes your realize the mind-blowing complexity of these crystalline marvels.

I like these selections of snowflake illustrations from the book Snowflakes: A Chapter from the Book of Nature by Israel ...

Classifying the geometry of snowflakes highlights their beauty and diversity Like snowflakes, supporting Science News can take many forms.

The pictures show that each falling snowflake has its own delicate geometry. It's a jumble of many, many individual snow crystals with different shapes ranging from needles to little balls.

Snow crystals resting on spikelets of a grass. Almost 400 years ago astronomer Johannes Kepler, famous for formulating the geometric laws describing the movements of planets, wondered, "Why is it ...

Snowflakes — those intricate, one-of-a-kind ice crystals — form when precipitation falls through varying levels of humidity and temperatures in the air. While plenty has been written about the ...

Despite the new advances in modeling snowflake growth, Libbrecht says, the fundamental mystery about snowflakes—how they form in the first place—is still far from solved.

A single genetic change and some clever geometry show how single-celled organisms can band together to form cooperative multicellular entities.

Flurries of questions about mysterious triangle-shaped snowflakes may soon subside, thanks to new research on snowflake formation. Most snowflakes are hexagons because of the arrangement of ...