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 ...

A unique laboratory at Michigan Tech captured microscopic photography of snowflakes in a demonstration of the lab's high-powered scanning electron microscope. The Applied Chemical and Morphological ...

Why would former Microsoft chief technology officer Nathan Myhrvold spend a year and a half building a custom 100-megapixel carbon-fiber super-cooled sapphire-lensed LED-lit super camera to take ...

Microscopy used to be a rarity in the hobby electronics world. But anyone doing lab work has always needed a microscope and with today’s tiny parts, it is almost a necessity. However, [Nathan Myhrvold ...

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. These incredible images capture the intricate details of minuscule snowflakes, moments before they melt. (Photo: Don ...

Snow can seem anything but delicate when you consider avalanches, nor’easters, and the fact that we generally stomp through it, shovel it, and drive over it. But on a microscopic level, each ...

The fourth and fifth graders at Sage Ridge School in Reno fill their classroom with shouts of “ooh” and “ahh” as Meghan Collins teaches them how to take pictures of snowflakes with their phones. Since ...

For many people, snow carries a negative connotation. It's cold, forces people indoors, makes driving difficult, and requires its own wardrobe. Nathan Myhrvold sees snow differently. For the former ...

People react differently when snow sweeps over a region: Some joyously build snowmen, some begrudgingly brush off their cars, and others hunker down in the comfort of their homes. Very few grab a ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Vermont farmer Wilson A. Bentley was known as Snowflake Bentley for his pioneering 19th-century photography of more than 5,000 jewel-like snowflakes -- no two alike. Bentley, also ...