Why are no two snowflakes alike?

2024-01-15 10:33:56

everyday science

Its unmistakable image, with six points and a hexagonal structure, has become one of the icons of winter

A snow crystal ALEXEY KLJATOV

15/01/2024

Updated at 10:32 a.m.

Two years before Christopher Columbus discovered America, Olaus Magnus was born, a Swedish writer, cartographer and ecclesiastic, who has gone down in history for his pioneering works in history and anthropology. In 1555 he published ‘Carta marine’, the oldest map of the Nordic coasts…

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