To explain why snowflakes look the way they do, we first need to understand how they form. For a snowflake to form there ...

Snowflakes. These intricate, whimsical crystals are a staple of magical wintry scenes, but how big can they really get? Well, ...

The largest snow crystal ever measured was 10 millimetres across, discovered by Kenneth Libbrecht, who photographed the record-breaker in Ontario, Canada, in December 2003. Libbrecht is a professor at ...

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And a bonus fact to finish: According to Guinness World Records, external, the largest single snowflake ever measured was 38cm (15in) wide, and was found in Montana, US back in 1887.

Here’s how it works. The first black hole ever photographed is still surprising researchers. Immortalized by the Event Horizon Telescope in 2019, M87* , was recently spotted emitting a massive ...

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Change Healthcare — which operates the US’s biggest clearinghouse for medical ... Account hacks involving cloud-based data warehousing firm Snowflake led to multiple high-profile data breaches ...

The Parker Solar Probe is attempting the closest ever pass of the sun’s surface on Christmas Eve. An image from the Parker Solar Probe’s WISPR instrument of a coronal streamer of the sun ...

A sci-fi film branded by fans as one of the greatest 'ever made' about extraterrestrials will be available to watch for free this Christmas. The 1977 Steven Spielberg-directed masterpiece ...

With a surface area more than twice that of Greater London's, A23a is the biggest iceberg on the planet, having calved from the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf in 1986. The frozen leviathan is now on the ...

The film's Hindi dubbed version also defeated Jawan to become the biggest Hindi opener ever. Pushpa 2 has received overwhelming positive reviews from the audiences and critics. Allu Arjun's ...