Posts Tagged ‘snowflake’

  • Is every snowflake unique?

    One fact we know from childhood: every snowflake is unique.
    Isn’t it?
    UW-Madison’s snowflake expert, meteorology professor Pao Wang, gently delivered the grim news: “Not really. I think the saying is more or less a picturesque way of saying that there are so many varieties of snowflakes, thousands of different kinds.”
    Wang studies how snow and ice form [...]


    Monday, December 17th, 2007


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