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From large, wet flakes to hard, barrel-shaped pellets, snow comes in many forms. While all snowflakes start in the same basic way, variations in temperature and humidity while they are forming ...

An end-of-winter reminder on the science and wonder of snowflakes. Dirty snowdrifts and hard-packed piles can make it hard to appreciate snow at this time of year. In the extreme, snow’s a drag, but ...

University of Utah researchers developed a high-speed camera system that spent the past two winters photographing snowflakes in 3-D as they fell – and they don't look much like those perfect-but-rare ...

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 ...

CHICAGO — On winter mornings, most people have seen enough snow. But there are some people who can’t get enough, including physicists who study it, mathematicians who ply its sublimely symmetrical ...