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Snowflakes teach us many lessons when we’re children. It teaches us about the fractal beauty that lies beneath all things; it teaches us about uniqueness, patterns, and infinity. But for some reason, ...

Snow crystals resting on spikelets of a grass. Almost 400 years ago astronomer Johannes Kepler, famous for formulating the geometric laws describing the movements of planets, wondered, "Why is it, ...

Flurries of questions about mysterious triangle-shaped snowflakes may soon subside, thanks to new research on snowflake formation. Most snowflakes are hexagons because of the arrangement of hydrogen ...