Create a flurry of science-inspired activity in the final weeks of your winter season with the Franklin Institute’s set of 20 science-themed paper snowflake patterns. The set includes eight patterns ...

Explore the science of polar vortexes, how trees survive freezing temperatures, and snowflake formation as the Adirondacks ...

As winter and the holiday season draws closer dress up your winter and holiday decorations by making snowflakes using these ...

How fast snowflakes fall can have important implications for the speed of climate change, according to new research. Scientists studying how snowflakes swirl towards the ground found they all fall in ...

Snow is an all-too-familiar feature of the colder months across much of the U.S., but how much do you know about the science of snowflakes? There will be plenty of snowflakes falling on Wednesday with ...

This segment is part of The State of Science, a series featuring science stories from public radio stations across the United States. A version of this story, by Ezra David Romero, appeared on Capitol ...

It wasn’t until Kenneth Libbrecht moved to decidedly un-snowy southern California that he finally began to appreciate snow. “I found it kind of funny that after I ended up as an adult and moved away ...

A winter wonderland calls to mind piles of fluffy, glistening snow. But to reach the ground, snowflakes are swept into the turbulent atmosphere, swirling through the air instead of plummeting directly ...

Graduate student Ryan Szczerbinski examines instrumentation called a Differential Emissivity Imaging Disdrometer, or DEID, developed by University of Utah researchers and installed at Alta near the ...

Snowflakes have been puzzling mathematicians for about four centuries. Still, scientists have never been able to fully explain snowflake shapes. For example, is this true that their six-pointed ...