We’ve all heard it—no two snowflakes are alike. However, they all seem to share that same six-sided shape, so what’s […] ...

Often when describing patterns, they are placed in one of two categories: organic or geometric. Organic designs are ones based on natural things, like the silhouette of a tree or fur pattern of an ...

You’ve probably heard that no two snowflakes are alike—but you’ve never seen crystal formations in such stunning detail as in a trio of three new photographs by Nathan Myhrvold, who claims to have ...

Mathematician Katie Steckles explains just why the proliferation of snowflake decorations this time of year is deeply ...

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 ...

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 ...

With a camera-equipped microscope of his own making, Kenneth G. Libbrecht shoots some of the world’s most stunning photographs of snowflakes. Since October, four of the physicist’s images have adorned ...

Ohio got a chance to see some snowfall as December hit, and with the official start of winter and the winter solstice just a couple of weeks away, we caught a glimpse of the seasonal feel as we ...