Snowflakes are unique. And although Snowflake Inc. was named for its founders’ love of the ski slopes rather than its innovative database, Snowflake is unlike any other cloud data platform around.

From working with external developers to providing machine-learning capabilities, Snowflake co-founder Benoît Dageville says the firm is focused on honing its own data capabilities while also ...

Snowflakes are tiny but incredibly complex. Simply put, it’s an ice crystal that has gained enough mass to fall to Earth as snow. The shape of that crystal structure is largely determined by the ...

Is it true that two snowflakes can't be identical and if not, what are the odds? The specific number of snowflake types depends on who you ask. Photographer Wilson Alwyn Bentley took pictures of ...

Snowflakes form when supercooled water vapor freezes around particles in clouds. Temperature and humidity dictate snowflake shape; needles form around -5 to -10°C. No two snowflakes are alike due to ...

Snowflakes are one of the most beautiful parts of snow. Even though the pattern differs from one snowflake to the next, they all form the same way. Snowflakes form in clouds where the temperature is ...

The next time we get snow showers (which have been hard to come by this winter and last winter), see if you can catch a couple and look very closely (or pull out a magnifying glass). You'll see that ...