Like snowflakes, supporting Science News can take ... they assemble into a myriad of spectacular shapes from simple hexagons to star-shaped dendrites. Inspect these frozen fractals and you ...

Bentley’s work, meteorologists found there are 35 different ways to classify a snowflake. Just a few of the categories include stellar dendrites, which are star-shaped crystals and are more ...

That shape changes even further as they fall through the air. As each snowflake falls ... creating the star-like patterns we tend to see on Christmas decorations. High humidity also creates ...