From stars to needles to amorphous globs, scientists are demystifying a snowflake’s complex construction, showing how factors such as temperature can influence their shape.

Lots of Mainers woke up to snow Monday morning. While no two snowflakes are identical, temperatures determine their ...

We often hear that no two snowflakes are alike ... There are many types of dendrites, including stellar dendrites, fernlike stellar dendrites, which have branches with so many side branches ...

We have the stellar plates and finally as the temperature drop between 3 to 10 degrees we have the dendrites. Dendrites are the pretty snowflakes that produce the fluffy snow that all love.

stellar plates form again, while below minus eight degrees hollow columns return. No two snowflakes are alike, either. They all have similar structures (for example, you should see all dendrites ...