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 ...

Snowflake the albino gorilla at the Barcelona Zoo. Snowflake died of skin cancer in 2003. (Photographic archive of the Barcelona Zoo.) Snowflake the albino gorilla at the Barcelona Zoo. Snowflake died ...

When was the last time you took a close look at a snowflake? This video from Science Friday has me itching to grab a magnifying glass and go on a snowflake safari. Want to come with? For the best ...

Skiers and farmers will be glad someday that William Wergin tested his new $100,000 microscope attachment on snow scooped from his car rather than on mold scraped from an orange. His impulsive ...

A famous albino gorilla that lived for 40 years at the Barcelona Zoo got its white coloring by way of inbreeding, new research shows. Snowflake was a male Western lowland gorilla. He was born in the ...