Who hasn't marveled at a lacy snowflake coming to rest on a jacket sleeve? Do you wonder how it could survive the fall to earth in one piece? A snowflake begins high up in the clouds, not as a ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Snow flurries flurries fell across parts of Middle Tennessee Wednesday morning. Even though the light snow didn’t cause any impacts, they did stick around long enough for ...

Snowflakes are one of the most beautiful parts of snow. Even though the pattern differs from one snowflake to the next, they all form the same way. Snowflakes form in clouds where the temperature is ...

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 ...

Fermilab created a season's greetings card using particle physics flair and a US milestone. You can click on the image below to send the card yourself to show your holiday cheer and physics pride.

In the iconic "Sound of Music" score, "My Favorite Things," a young Julie Andrews lists snowflakes as objects that bring her ...

Scientists in New Zealand and Australia working at the level of atoms created something unexpected: tiny metallic snowflakes. Scientists in New Zealand and Australia working at the level of atoms ...

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 ...

(WHTM) — Christmas is just a week away, everyone will be waiting to see if we will have a white or a wet Christmas. But, what exactly is snow and how does it form? Also, why do two snowflakes never ...

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 ...

New understanding of modeling soot in the atmosphere underscores the importance of reducing carbon emissions. Black carbon particles — more commonly known as soot — absorb heat in the atmosphere. For ...