Suddenly, people had a window into the microscopic world all around us. Humans discovered a menagerie of microbes, but we also spent some time staring at snowflakes, observing the diminutive and ...

You have full access to this article via your institution. High in the sky a snowflake is born. Nucleated by a microscopic particle, the tiny snowflake begins to grow and — under the force of ...

However, in 1885, scientist Wilson Bentley devised a clever way of attaching his camera to a microscope so he could take photographs of snowflakes in greater detail than ever before. Getting this ...

but these are freshly fallen snowflakes, or snow crystals ... Kljatov transformed the 10-year-old camera into a powerful microscope. The 42-year-old, who works as a printing-press operator ...

Like snowflakes, supporting Science News can take ... s gift to a friend that this numerical repetition stemmed from the microscopic scale. Water molecules freeze as hexagons, he proposed, which ...