• 3D paper snowflakes are surprisingly easy to make. • Just accordion-fold the paper first before cutting a pattern. • Then carefully unfold and tape the edges together. Nearly everyone has made paper ...

What looks like a simple speck of snow falling from the sky is actually the result of a long, delicate and surprisingly ...

What are snowflakes? They are clusters of ice crystals, forming unique six-sided structures. Learn about the shape of a ...

Snowflakes are commonly considered delicate "winter beauties," but there is an interesting secret within the complexity of their designs. Their six-sided patterns predict weather, snowflakes are much ...

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 ...

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 ...