Snowflakes provide many of us with our earliest impressions of what it means to be unique. Even within a group—the flakes so ...

Watch: This absolutely breathtaking photography of frost crystals will remind you of nature's microscopic beauty.

However, [Nathan Myhrvold] didn’t use an ordinary microscope to capture some beautiful snowflake pictures. According to [My Modern Met], the pictures are the highest resolution snowflake ...

If humidity is low, there isn’t as much water vapour in the atmosphere so the snowflakes form something called 'plates', the flat hexagonal shapes you see if you look at them under a microscope.

...but these are freshly fallen snowflakes, or snow crystals, resting on wool. They are around 1 millimeter in size and were captured using a simple, cheap photography technique. When the snow ...

Wilson Bentley, a “bona-fide snowflake obsessive,” essentially jerry-rigged a microscope to a camera to snap close-ups of flakes in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Bentley’s work inspired ...