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ST. LOUIS — The City Museum’s “Snowflake Lady” is still clipping and creating, and recently released a book detailing how to create “snowflakes” using your favorite creatures as the basis for the ...

Individual snowflakes have unique, intricate patterns, but the complicated way in which they fall appears to be universal. Normally, when an object falls to the ground it picks up speed until the ...

Using a special photo-microscope, Kenneth Libbrecht, a Professor of Physics at the California Institute of Technology, has spent the last 11 years catching and photographing snowflakes Credit: ...

Miriam Rossi, a professor of chemistry at Vassar College, offers the following reply: Snowflakes are symmetrical because they reflect the internal order of the water molecules as they arrange ...