(Inside Science) -- Snowflakes. They are beautiful and fragile -- and very difficult to photograph. But that didn’t stop one scientist from trying. Can you imagine how hard it would be to photograph a ...

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It's well-known that no two snowflakes are alike, but did you know it took a Vermont farmer 30 years of taking pictures to confirm that fact?Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley captured his first photo of a ...

Although the images sold for just five cents at the time, they are now regarded as having helped shape the world of science photography. With their delicate symmetry and unique crystalline structures, ...

Any snowfall can be a headache and all-out nuisance for many of us each winter. Yet Mother Nature's burden is also a wonder to behold. For photographer Nathan Myhrvold, capturing the beauty of ...

All of the snowflake photos on this page, believe it or not, were captured using a six-year-old point-and-shoot Canon camera and a standard 58mm SLR lens that was produced in the USSR sometime between ...

A snowflake covered with rime, little pellets of ice. Lots of rime is known as graupel or soft hail. (Courtesy Kenneth Libbrecht, snowcrystals.com) As another erratic winter draws to a close, it’s ...

Nathan Myhrvold created the Snowflake Cam to capture up-close pictures of snowflakes. He calls it "the highest resolution snowflake camera in the world." He has traveled all over the US to find ...

Studies among the Snow Crystals by Wilson Bentley 1902. Bentley was a bachelor farmer whose hobby was photographing snow flakes. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images) Close-up of ...