On a winter day, a snowflake can look like a tiny work of art, with six delicate arms branching outward in nearly identical patterns. For centuries, people have admired this symmetry and wondered how ...

After getting slammed with nearly two feet of snow and frigid weather, and with meteorologists tracking another potential storm that could strike Massachusetts this weekend, it's no wonder Bay State ...

From a distance, snow may seem simple. But the journey of a single snowflake is anything but ordinary — and it involves chemistry, clouds and just the right atmospheric conditions. To understand how ...

SALT LAKE CITY -- Curiously, one thing you will never find on the side of a snow covered mountain or in the last snowman you built is an eight-sided (or four- or five-sided) snowflake. What makes ...