This 10.0 mm (0.4 inches) monster snowflake holds the Guinness record for the largest snow crystal. A microscope was used to photograph it in four quadrants, which were later digitally recombined.

Trust someone who grew up in North Dakota to write a book about snow -- snowflakes to be more exact. Author Kenneth Libbrecht is now professor of physics and chairman of the physics department at ...

Sextillions of snowflakes fell from the sky this winter. That’s billions of trillions of them, now mostly melted away as spring approaches. Few people looked at them closely, one by one. Kenneth ...

Ed Adams, a snow researcher and professor at Montana State University, looks through a book on snowflakes at his office at MSU. Kenneth Libbrecht, head of the physics department at the California ...

Kenneth Libbrecht is that rare person who, in the middle of winter, gleefully leaves Southern California for a place like Fairbanks, Alaska, where wintertime temperatures rarely rise above freezing.

With more smartphones equipped with macro lenses, you no longer need to haul around a big camera to capture decent views of delicate snowflakes. Look for where they tumble down across cold windshields ...

Part of the answer depends on what you mean by the word “snowflake.” The other part of that answer depends on who you ask. If you consult the Guinness World Record keepers, they say that the “largest ...

Part of the answer depends on what you mean by the word "snowflake." The other part of that answer depends on who you ask. If you consult the Guinness World Record keepers, they say that the "largest ...