From stars to needles to amorphous globs, scientists are demystifying a snowflake’s complex construction, showing how factors such as temperature can influence their shape.
Snowflakes are like letters from the sky, each crystal a note describing the atmosphere as it falls to the ground. They float effortlessly, but their creation is one of nature’s most complicated ...
To explain why snowflakes look the way they do, we first need to understand how they form. For a snowflake to form there needs to be condensation nuclei present. Condensation nuclei is typically a ...