BEIJING, 16 November (BelTA - Xinhua). - Zhang Chao, an avid micrograph enthusiast from Beijing, recently reproduced a number of photographs of snowflakes pictured under his microscope for the public, ...

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Snowflakes, nature's tiny artworks, owe their six-sided symmetry to the hexagonal arrangement of water molecules in ice. As they fall through clouds, varying temperatures and humidity dictate their ...

The first person to photograph a single snowflake captured these images. Wilson A. Bentley used a microscope with his camera—plus years of trial and error—to get a photo of an individual snowflake in ...