Using a special photo-microscope, Kenneth Libbrecht, a Professor of Physics at the California Institute of Technology, has spent the last 11 years catching and photographing snowflakes Credit: ...

Snowflakes are like letters from the sky, each crystal a note describing the atmosphere as it falls to the ground. They float effortlessly, but their creation is one of nature’s most complicated ...

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 ...

After getting slammed with nearly two feet of snow and frigid weather, and with meteorologists tracking another potential storm that could strike Massachusetts this weekend, it's no wonder Bay State ...

Individual snowflakes have unique, intricate patterns, but the complicated way in which they fall appears to be universal. Normally, when an object falls to the ground it picks up speed until the ...