Nathan Myhrvold created the Snowflake Cam to capture up-close pictures of snowflakes. He calls it "the highest resolution snowflake camera in the world." He has traveled all over the US to find ...

Snow can seem anything but delicate when you consider avalanches, nor’easters, and the fact that we generally stomp through it, shovel it, and drive over it. But on a microscopic level, each ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Vermont farmer Wilson A. Bentley was known as Snowflake Bentley for his pioneering 19th-century photography of more than 5,000 jewel-like snowflakes -- no two alike. Bentley, also ...

A unique laboratory at Michigan Tech captured microscopic photography of snowflakes in a demonstration of the lab's high-powered scanning electron microscope. The Applied Chemical and Morphological ...

Although the images sold for just five cents at the time, they are now regarded as having helped shape the world of science photography. With their delicate symmetry and unique crystalline structures, ...

Why would former Microsoft chief technology officer Nathan Myhrvold spend a year and a half building a custom 100-megapixel carbon-fiber super-cooled sapphire-lensed LED-lit super camera to take ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. These incredible images capture the intricate details of minuscule snowflakes, moments before they melt. (Photo: Don ...

Microscopy used to be a rarity in the hobby electronics world. But anyone doing lab work has always needed a microscope and with today’s tiny parts, it is almost a necessity. However, [Nathan Myhrvold ...

Just as no two snowflakes are alike, neither are exhibits about "Snowflake" Bentley, and there's always more to discover. London's Natural History Museum has digitized one of Wilson Bentley's books of ...

The fourth and fifth graders at Sage Ridge School in Reno fill their classroom with shouts of “ooh” and “ahh” as Meghan Collins teaches them how to take pictures of snowflakes with their phones. Since ...

Every winter storm drops billions of ice crystals, each one shaped by a unique path through shifting temperatures and ...

Did you have the same question as I did when you looked at the spectacular first light images from the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope (JWST or “Webb” for short)? Yes, they are all incredible, ...