Farmer Wilson Bentley was the first to photograph the tiny snow crystals individually, and his collection reveals that each ...

In a data warehouse, the structure that is created when highly repeated fields are placed into separate tables. The resulting diagram has short and long branches extending from the original dimension ...

Ice chemists are studying the surface structure of snow crystals and why sharp transitions in shape occur at different temperatures. The differences they see not only explain why no two snowflakes are ...

The next time we get snow showers (which have been hard to come by this winter and last winter), see if you can catch a couple and look very closely (or pull out a magnifying glass). You'll see that ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - There is more to the snowflake than its ability to delight schoolchildren and snarl traffic. The structure of the frosty flakes also fascinate ice chemists like Purdue ...