RIT Professor Michael Peres still vividly recalls driving home a decade ago one cold, snowy night after a conversation with one of his excited students. Emily Marshall, a student in his biomedical ...

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 ...

Michael Peres is obsessed with photographing snowflakes with a microscope. He catches the snowflakes on a piece of black velvet, runs into his garage and places the delicate flakes on a microscope ...

They'll be falling soon throughout the upper reaches of the Northern Hemisphere by the billion, and by February many of us may be sick of them. But before they wear out their welcome, take a moment to ...

Physicist Kenneth Libbrecht’s snowflake images have gotten stuck--on a stamp. Last week the United States Postal Service issued four new 39-cent commemorative postage stamps based on Libbrecht’s ...

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 ...

An end-of-winter reminder on the science and wonder of snowflakes. Dirty snowdrifts and hard-packed piles can make it hard to appreciate snow at this time of year. In the extreme, snow’s a drag, but ...

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