Farmer Wilson Bentley was the first to photograph the tiny snow crystals individually, and his collection reveals that each ...

A single snowflake begins its life high inside a cloud, where tiny droplets of water encounter freezing temperatures. Under the right conditions, these droplets crystallize around microscopic ...

This 10.0 mm (0.4 inches) monster snowflake holds the Guinness record for the largest snow crystal. A microscope was used to photograph it in four quadrants, which were later digitally recombined.

A unique laboratory at Michigan Tech captured microscopic photography of snowflakes in a demonstration of the lab's high-powered scanning electron microscope. The Applied Chemical and Morphological ...

NEW YORK -- Vermont farmer Wilson A. Bentley was known as Snowflake Bentley for his pioneering 19th-century photography of more than 5,000 jewellike snowflakes -- no two alike. Bentley, also known as ...

Any snowfall can be a headache and all-out nuisance for many of us each winter. Yet Mother Nature's burden is also a wonder to behold. For photographer Nathan Myhrvold, capturing the beauty of ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. NEW YORK - Pioneering photographs of jewel-like snowflakes taken by a 19th-century Vermont farmer known as Snowflake Bentley are being sold in New York ...