Snow is made of tiny ice crystals that can transform into a variety of intricate symmetrical patterns forming a beautiful ...

Snow is an all-too-familiar feature of the colder months across much of the U.S., but how much do you know about the science of snowflakes? There will be plenty of snowflakes falling on Wednesday with ...

(WHTM) — Christmas is just a week away, everyone will be waiting to see if we will have a white or a wet Christmas. But, what exactly is snow and how does it form? Also, why do two snowflakes never ...

Imagine you’re floating at the top of a cloud and you’re made of a dust particle. It’s 5 degrees Fahrenheit. Water vapor freezes onto you, making an icy, three-dimensional prism. It has six flat sides ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Snowflakes form when a cold water droplet freezes onto particulates (like dust or pollen) in the atmosphere, creating an ice crystal. As the ice crystal falls through the sky, ...

A snowflake is a small weather feature that can pack a big punch. Many are made up of just one single ice crystal while some, more elaborate snowflakes are comprised of as many as 200 ice crystals ...

Something almost magical happens when you put a tray full of sloshing, liquid water into a freezer and it comes out later as a rigid, solid crystal of ice. Chemists at the University of Utah have ...

I AGREE with Sir George Simpson that the word ‘snowflake’ is not a perfect description of a single ice crystal falling as snow (indeed I said so in the passage which he quotes), but can a better be ...