It starts very high in the sky, where temperatures are always well below freezing. One molecule of water adheres to a tiny ice crystal, and then another. They pile on in the shape of hexagons until, ...

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 ...

NORFOLK, Va. — While most of us grew up cutting out snowflakes from construction paper, with six points, the truth is, many snowflakes don’t look like the star-shaped dendrites we are used to seeing.