But nature’s tiniest designs can be just as transformative. Take snowflakes. Their shape is an iconic theme in winter décor, ...

Keith Bonnstetter is an artist who takes the art of paper cutting to a new level with his 2D and 3D snowflake designs. He wrote a book of snowflake patterns for every day of the year ...

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

One of the treats of holidays long past was an activity that involved folding, then cutting a sheet or strip of paper to reveal a lacy snowflake or a chain of identical spruce trees, connected at ...

By Aislinn Sarnacki When I was a little girl, I learned that no two snowflakes are alike. Each has a unique pattern — complex ...

Miriam Rossi, a professor of chemistry at Vassar College, offers the following reply: Snowflakes are symmetrical because they reflect the internal order of the water molecules as they arrange ...

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 ...