Scientists have used 3D printing to create varying shapes of snowflakes and study how their individual structure affects their behaviour About 85% of precipitation in the UK started life as an ice ...

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 ...

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, ...

Often when describing patterns, they are placed in one of two categories: organic or geometric. Organic designs are ones based on natural things, like the silhouette of a tree or fur pattern of an ...