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, ...

Snowflakes, nature's tiny artworks, owe their six-sided symmetry to the hexagonal arrangement of water molecules in ice. As they fall through clouds, varying temperatures and humidity dictate their ...

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With more smartphones equipped with macro lenses, you no longer need to haul around a big camera to capture decent views of delicate snowflakes. Look for where they tumble down across cold windshields ...

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 ...

All of the snowflake photos on this page, believe it or not, were captured using a six-year-old point-and-shoot Canon camera and a standard 58mm SLR lens that was produced in the USSR sometime between ...

From table salt to snowflakes, and from gemstones to diamonds—we encounter crystals everywhere in daily life, usually cubic (table salt) or hexagonal (snowflakes). Researchers from Noushine ...