Image caption, From a single ice crystal, these amazing patterns form according to different weather conditions. Snowflakes are renowned for their uniqueness. No matter how many billions of them ...

Although snow crystals are the product of a well-understood phase transition, some basic aspects of their growth have remained unexplained for over 75 years. Join Kenneth Libbrecht, Professor of ...

More crystals grow on top of these ice crystals to create hexagonal shapes called snowflakes. Hexagonal means they have six sides. If they fall through cold, dry air, the snow will be powdery.

According to Dr. Masaru Emoto from Japan, the formation of ice crystals and snowflakes is influenced by different environmental conditions, pollution, human thought and even music. Studies undertaken ...

All your questions answered: how do snowflakes form? Is each snowflake unique? And why is some snow light and some snow heavy ...

The dark red represents the highest density of ice crystals, snowflakes and raindrops A never-seen-before space image of the interior structure of a storm cloud has been released by the European ...