RIT Professor Michael Peres still vividly recalls driving home a decade ago one cold, snowy night after a conversation with one of his excited students. Emily Marshall, a student in his biomedical ...

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 ...

This segment is part of The State of Science, a series featuring science stories from public radio stations across the United States. A version of this story, by Clarisa Diaz, originally appeared on ...

(WUTR/WFXV/WPNY) – Snowflakes can come in so many intricate shapes and patterns but still look the same to the naked eye. Upon closer look under a microscope, you can see the beautiful designs that ...

A few centuries back, advancements in the art of lens crafting and the innovations of unknown inventors led to the emergence of the microscope. Suddenly, people had a window into the microscopic world ...

Although the images sold for just five cents at the time, they are now regarded as having helped shape the world of science photography. With their delicate symmetry and unique crystalline structures, ...

If you've ever heard someone referred to as a "special little snowflake," the implication is that they're beautiful and precious because of all the myriad ways in which they are unique. The old saying ...

Whether made with setups using sapphire and carbon fiber or an old mitten and a standard camera, these photographic approaches allow close-ups of the tiny masterpieces formed when snow falls. “Ice ...

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 ...