Snowflakes appear in dozens of structures, from simple columns and stars to ornate dendrites and beyond. Ahead, we’ve ...

Through rain and sleet and dead of night and all that, your letters next winter can be delivered bearing snowflakes artfully photographed by a physicist who weathers those same storms to study ...

Researchers discovered that gold, copper and iron nanocrystals form pentagonal snowflake-like patterns during rapid chemical ...

Often when describing patterns, they are placed in one of two categories: organic or geometric. Organic designs are ones ...

As winter and the holiday season draws closer dress up your winter and holiday decorations by making snowflakes using these ...

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 ...

Snowflakes have been puzzling mathematicians for about four centuries. Still, scientists have never been able to fully explain snowflake shapes. For example, is this true that their six-pointed ...

Beck spent nine hours stomping out this pattern—five during the day and four more after dark. courtesy Simon Beck Beck isn't alone in his snow art creations. This image of a design in the sunset bowl ...