By Aislinn Sarnacki When I was a little girl, I learned that no two snowflakes are alike. Each has a unique pattern — complex ...

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Wilson A. Bentley literally spent a lifetime photographing snowflakes. In 1885, at age 19, he attached a microscope to a bellows camera to make the first microphotograph of a snow crystal. Over the ...

Laboratory-grown snowflakes provide new insights into the molecular dynamics of crystal growth. Here high voltage was used to create thin ice needles, and stellar snowflakes subsequently grew on the ...