(WUTR/WFXV/WPNY) – Snowflakes can come in so many intricate shapes and patterns but still look the same to the naked eye. Upon closer look under a microscope, you can see the beautiful designs that ...

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 ...

RIT Professor Michael Peres still vividly recalls driving home a decade ago one cold, snowy night after a conversation with one of his excited students. Emily Marshall, a student in his biomedical ...

Sextillions of snowflakes fell from the sky this winter. That’s billions of trillions of them, now mostly melted away as spring approaches. Few people looked at them closely, one by one. Kenneth ...

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 ...

We are often told that every snowflake is different - but the naked eye is simply not advanced enough to appreciate the world's favourite form of precipitation. But even without a white Christmas this ...

Human beings - we’re made up of a lot of the same biological stuff but we don’t all look alike, do we? The same goes for two daisies growing side-by-side or apples growing from the same tree. They may ...

If the recent snowfalls have left you dreaming of a white Christmas, your wish might be granted - because forecasters say we're in for more over the next week. And although a crisp and pristine ...