RIT Professor Michael Peres still vividly recalls driving home a decade ago one cold, snowy night after a conversation with one of his excited students. Emily Marshall, a student in his biomedical ...

Michael Peres is obsessed with photographing snowflakes with a microscope. He catches the snowflakes on a piece of black velvet, runs into his garage and places the delicate flakes on a microscope ...

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