With so many snowflakes so closely overlapping, the details get lost. A microscope lets you isolate individual flakes and really appreciate their unique characteristics. In the late 19th and early ...

However, [Nathan Myhrvold] didn’t use an ordinary microscope to capture some beautiful snowflake pictures. According to [My Modern Met], the pictures are the highest resolution snowflake ...

However, in 1885, scientist Wilson Bentley devised a clever way of attaching his camera to a microscope so he could take photographs of snowflakes in greater detail than ever before. Getting this ...

but these are freshly fallen snowflakes, or snow crystals ... Kljatov transformed the 10-year-old camera into a powerful microscope. The 42-year-old, who works as a printing-press operator ...