In the iconic "Sound of Music" score, "My Favorite Things," a young Julie Andrews lists snowflakes as objects that bring her ...

We’ve all heard it—no two snowflakes are alike. However, they all seem to share that same six-sided shape, so what’s […] ...

Ice chemists are studying the surface structure of snow crystals and why sharp transitions in shape occur at different temperatures. The differences they see not only explain why no two snowflakes are ...

Three-dimensional snowflakes can now be grown in a computer using a program developed by mathematicians. Intricate, incredibly variable and beautiful, snowflakes have been puzzling mathematicians ...

Mathematician Katie Steckles explains just why the proliferation of snowflake decorations this time of year is deeply ...

What looks like a simple speck of snow falling from the sky is actually the result of a long, delicate and surprisingly ...

A recent post in the subreddit r/answers cast doubt on an age-old truism, asking how it is "really possible no two snowflakes can be identical" — a reference to the claim that no two snowflakes are ...

In a data warehouse, the structure that is created when highly repeated fields are placed into separate tables. The resulting diagram has short and long branches extending from the original dimension ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - There is more to the snowflake than its ability to delight schoolchildren and snarl traffic. The structure of the frosty flakes also fascinate ice chemists like Purdue ...