Snowflakes provide many of us with our earliest impressions of what it means to be unique. Even within a group—the flakes so numerous as to be seemingly uncountable—no two, we were told, are exactly ...

After Bentley’s death, the photographs helped scientists craft the first lab-grown snowflakes — work that still continues today. 37,094 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you ...

...but these are freshly fallen snowflakes, or snow crystals, resting on wool. They are around 1 millimeter in size and were captured using a simple, cheap photography technique. When the snow ...

No two snowflakes are alike, and that’s even more true in the arctic temperatures we are seeing this week. These photos capture up-close images of snowflakes that fell recently in Kansas City.

Bentley spent the next 25 years capturing images of snowflakes and keeping meteorological records. He took over 5,300 photographs of snowflakes in his lifetime. Because of Mr. Bentley’s work ...

On Tuesday, Aug. 20, several X users reposted an image of the cast holding their snowflakes. Amid comments poking fun at the ...

Ray of Light and Snowflake were the mascots of the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games. They are space travellers who came to Earth from two different planets. Ray of Light came from a planet that was ...