Aside from being cold, snowflakes are well-known for their unique shapes. New research illuminates how these lovely crystals fall to the ground. When the air is still snowflakes gently drift to the ...

Importantly, snowflakes grow from gaseous water vapour and not liquid water. Water molecules in the air diffuse onto the ice crystal and attach directly to it in a process known as deposition. Since ...

Graduate student Ryan Szczerbinski examines instrumentation called a Differential Emissivity Imaging Disdrometer, or DEID, developed by University of Utah researchers and installed at Alta near the ...

A recent post in the subreddit r/answers cast doubt on an age-old truism, asking how it is "really possible no two snowflakes can be identical" — a reference to the claim that no two snowflakes are ...