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Farmer Wilson Bentley was the first to photograph the tiny snow crystals individually, and his collection reveals that each has its own pattern Kayla Randall | Digital Editor, Museums Snowflakes form ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Yellowknife Flurry," a photograph by Nathan Myhrvold, captures the intricate structure of snowflakes. Nathan Myhrvold / Modernist Cuisine Gallery, LLC The first chill of a winter storm is enough to ...

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The first person to photograph a single snowflake captured these images. Wilson A. Bentley used a microscope with his camera—plus years of trial and error—to get a photo of an individual snowflake in ...