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 ...

Any snowfall can be a headache and all-out nuisance for many of us each winter. Yet Mother Nature's burden is also a wonder to behold. For photographer Nathan Myhrvold, capturing the beauty of ...

A few centuries back, advancements in the art of lens crafting and the innovations of unknown inventors led to the emergence of the microscope. Suddenly, people had a window into the microscopic world ...

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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, ...

Sextillions of snowflakes fell from the sky this winter. That’s billions of trillions of them, now mostly melted away as spring approaches. Few people looked at them closely, one by one. Kenneth ...

If you've ever heard someone referred to as a "special little snowflake," the implication is that they're beautiful and precious because of all the myriad ways in which they are unique. The old saying ...

Whether made with setups using sapphire and carbon fiber or an old mitten and a standard camera, these photographic approaches allow close-ups of the tiny masterpieces formed when snow falls. “Ice ...