In the first week of 2025, the pictures of the day show traditional 35mm slides, deserted beaches or thunderstorms.

To explain why snowflakes look the way they do, we first need to understand how they form. For a snowflake to form there ...

However, [Nathan Myhrvold] didn’t use an ordinary microscope to capture some beautiful snowflake pictures. According to [My Modern Met], the pictures are the highest resolution snowflake ...

While you may have heard that every snowflake is unique, how often do we examine it under high magnification? Thankfully, ...

Against that unusual backdrop, snowflakes pop. He carefully maneuvers the tiny frozen structures with a toothpick. The camera shutter registers each image. Click, click, click. “You can see they ...

However, snowflake patterns can occasionally appear within the material due to the presence of the mineral cristobalite, which has been created through a partial crystallization of the glass.

Against that unusual backdrop, snowflakes pop. He carefully maneuvers the tiny frozen structures with a toothpick. The camera shutter registers each image. Click, click, click. “You can see they ...