After getting slammed with nearly two feet of snow and frigid weather, and with meteorologists tracking another potential storm that could strike Massachusetts this weekend, it's no wonder Bay State ...

ARE these bubbles, bacteria or perhaps space rocks? No – they’re human tears as you’ve never seen them before. Each disc is a tear droplet that has been pipetted onto a glass slide, allowed to ...

Snowflakes have been puzzling mathematicians for about four centuries. Still, scientists have never been able to fully explain snowflake shapes. For example, is this true that their six-pointed ...

With a camera-equipped microscope of his own making, Kenneth G. Libbrecht shoots some of the world’s most stunning photographs of snowflakes. Since October, four of the physicist’s images have adorned ...

A winter storm is settling in over the U.S. and soon snowflakes will be falling across the nation. Have you ever wondered how one forms? Snow is made up of tiny ice crystals that can transform into a ...