Importantly, snowflakes grow from gaseous water vapour and not liquid water. Water molecules in the air diffuse onto the ice ...

Did you know snowflakes start out as dust? Or that snow isn’t actually white? We’re digging into the biggest scientific mysteries surrounding one of winter’s most magical phenomena.

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 ...

We’ve all heard it—no two snowflakes are alike. However, they all seem to share that same six-sided shape, so what’s going on? Why do they follow the same rulebook for structure but still end up ...

Snowflakes may look simple as they fall, but each one forms through an intricate chain of timing, chemistry and cloud physics. From their humble beginnings as tiny bits of dust in the sky, to their ...