To celebrate the 150th episode of Morse Code of Weather, Meteorologist Jacob Morse tested a couple of fun snow-related ...

Snow is made up of trillions of tiny ice crystals to make snowflakes, with not one alike. Here's how they form.

Learn how to make crystal snowflake ornaments. They are a fun, simple holiday craft for all ages. With basic supplies and a little time, you’ll create unique decorations perfect for your tree.

Ukichiro Nakaya, the Japanese physicist responsible for creating the first artificial snowflake, also created a classification system of 41 different crystal types. Shapes can range from cups to ...

Snowflakes provide many of us with our earliest impressions of what it means to be unique. Even within a group—the flakes so numerous as to be seemingly uncountable—no two, we were told, are exactly ...

This rare 12-armed crystal is the result of two snowflakes bonding on their fall through the clouds. The icy speckles covering this snowflake result from water droplets freezing onto its surface ...

During its descent, our snowflake experiences unique changes in pressure, temperature and humidity. The conflation of these influences, and the non-equilibrium growth of the crystal snowflake ...

Image caption, From a single ice crystal, these amazing patterns form according to different weather conditions. Snowflakes are renowned for their uniqueness. No matter how many billions of them ...

A case in point is the snow crystal, which grows into a puzzling variety of unusual morphologies under different conditions. Although snow crystals are the product of a well-understood phase ...

Like snowflakes, supporting Science News can take ... rows that form more hexagons as additional water molecules join the crystal. Scientists now know that H 2 O takes on a six-sided structure ...

As that crystal tumbles through the sky, it picks up more water vapor, which freezes and forms the arms of the snowflake. And here’s the wild part: the shape of the snowflake depends on how cold ...