The next time we get snow showers (which have been hard to come by this winter and last winter), see if you can catch a couple and look very closely (or pull out a magnifying glass). You'll see that ...

Is it true that two snowflakes can't be identical and if not, what are the odds? The specific number of snowflake types depends on who you ask. Photographer Wilson Alwyn Bentley took pictures of ...

Ed Adams, a snow researcher and professor at Montana State University, looks through a book on snowflakes at his office at MSU. Kenneth Libbrecht, head of the physics department at the California ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Snow has been rare in the Charlotte area lately. In fact, last winter was the first time in Charlotte history that the Queen City didn't even have a trace of snow. So while we wait ...

Have you tried to catch any snowflakes yet? If so, they may have melted before you got a good look. However, weather factors like humidity and temperature can actually tell us what type of snowflakes ...

What are snowflakes? Every winter, the world gets a shower of white, delicate crystals from space that turn the ground into a winter wonderland. But how many of us have really thought about how ...