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 ...

It’s that time of year again when the weather is getting colder, the knitted jumpers are coming out, and the nation is dreaming about a “white Christmas”. But those hoping for some snowflakes to fall ...

When snow falls from the sky, you don’t usually see individual ice crystals, but rather clumps of crystals stuck together.

A single snowflake begins its life high inside a cloud, where tiny droplets of water encounter freezing temperatures. Under the right conditions, these droplets crystallize around microscopic ...