"Yellowknife Flurry," a photograph by Nathan Myhrvold, captures the intricate structure of snowflakes. Nathan Myhrvold / Modernist Cuisine Gallery, LLC The first chill of a winter storm is enough to ...

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 ...

You’ve probably heard that no two snowflakes are alike—but you’ve never seen crystal formations in such stunning detail as in a trio of three new photographs by Nathan Myhrvold, who claims to have ...