From stars to needles to amorphous globs, scientists are demystifying a snowflake’s complex construction, showing how factors ...

Even though the snowflakes that make up snow are always hexagonal, they are always different. Some snowflakes have very simple shapes, but others, like dendrite snowflakes, have lots of different ...

Jennifer Rossi caught some amazing images of singular dendrite snowflakes during Saturday's light snow. Dendrites are snow crystals with branches that resemble a tree. There are many types of ...

Here's a scientific look at the amazing nature of snowflakes and snow. When was the last time you caught a snowflake? Photo: The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck The dendrite form is a study in water ...

plates and dendrites, which create the smooth and light snow characteristic of Hokkaido. But the team’s numerical simulations showed that if global warming increased, the percentage of rimed ...