Farmer Wilson Bentley was the first to photograph the tiny snow crystals individually, and his collection reveals that each ...

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 ...

A few centuries back, advancements in the art of lens crafting and the innovations of unknown inventors led to the emergence of the microscope. Suddenly, people had a window into the microscopic world ...

BEIJING, 16 November (BelTA - Xinhua). - Zhang Chao, an avid micrograph enthusiast from Beijing, recently reproduced a number of photographs of snowflakes pictured under his microscope for the public, ...

(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 ...

Snow can seem anything but delicate when you consider avalanches, nor’easters, and the fact that we generally stomp through it, shovel it, and drive over it. But on a microscopic level, each ...

Any snowfall can be a headache and all-out nuisance for many of us each winter. Yet Mother Nature's burden is also a wonder to behold. For photographer Nathan Myhrvold, capturing the beauty of ...

It’s a busy time of year. We have places to go, things to do, and a dusting of snow might be an afterthought amidst the hustle and bustle of the season. But taking the time to stop and look at the ...

No two snowflakes are alike. You probably learned that at an early age. But you might not know the man who discovered it. The lesson can be traced back to Wilson Bentley, a farmer from Jericho, ...

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 ...

Nathan Myhrvold created the Snowflake Cam to capture up-close pictures of snowflakes. He calls it "the highest resolution snowflake camera in the world." He has traveled all over the US to find ...