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 ...

Looking at snow under a microscope allows us to closely examine its crystalline structure, but prolonged observation is difficult because the crystals melt when the temperature of the room or the ...

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 ...

Trust someone who grew up in North Dakota to write a book about snow -- snowflakes to be more exact. Author Kenneth Libbrecht is now professor of physics and chairman of the physics department at ...

Skiers and farmers will be glad someday that William Wergin tested his new $100,000 microscope attachment on snow scooped from his car rather than on mold scraped from an orange. His impulsive ...

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 ...