To explain why snowflakes look the way they do, we first need to understand how they form. For a snowflake to form there ...

Snowflakes form when a cold water droplet freezes onto particulates (like dust or pollen) in the atmosphere, creating an ice ...

But aside from being cold, white specks of ice that fall from the sky, what really is snow, and how does it form? At the most basic level, snow is a collection of snowflakes, which is a collection ...

Your kids will love this cold weather science experiment where you can see individual snowflakes freezing in a soap ...

Analysis: All your questions answered: how do snowflakes form? Is each snowflake unique? And why is some snow light and some snow heavy? On days like today, we know all about snow. For some of us ...