While ice skating on Great Pond in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, Falmouth Ultimate coach Shea Gunther filmed his rolling frisbee as it glided on its edge for almost 90 seconds. “I noticed how the wind would catch an errant throw,” he told the BBC, “so I turned my camera on and threw it into the wind so it would skitter. And skitter it did”.
Cut a very large circle into a frozen lake and you may be able to get the ice to spin. It's called an ice carousel, and on April 7, 2018, around 100 people in Sinclair, Maine created a massive one over Long Lake. They...
This small lake outside Stockholm, Sweden, emits otherworldly sounds as Mårten Ajne skates over its precariously thin, black ice. “Wild ice skating,” or “Nordic skating,” is both an art and a science. A skater seeks o...
This fully functioning Rubik's Cube was made from ice by professional puzzle maker Tony Fisher... eight corner pieces and twelve edge pieces of solid ice, along with six center pieces made from ice, plastic, and metal...
Tim Linhart was an ice sculptor in Colorado. One day he carved an upright string bass from ice and was astonished at the beautiful sound it made. Now he is the founder of Ice Music, based in Luleå, Swedish Lapland. Ic...
Every year, from January 5th to around February 25th, the city of Harbin, China transforms into a frozen city of light for the annual Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival. The sculptures are massive architectural feats con...
Ice can make all sorts of sounds: cracking, crackling, musical booooooms... and that pew! pew! Star Wars blaster sound. How? In this episode of NPR's Skunk Bear, we learn about acoustic dispersion and how the phenomen...
White stalactites hang down from every surface, and the walls and floors are glazed with thick ice. The Ningwu ice cave, also referred to as Wannian Ice Cave in Ningwu County, China, is a unique phenomenon: The subter...
On the Brighton Beach shore of the largest Great Lake -- Lake Superior in Duluth, Minnesota -- photographer Dawn M. LaPointe captured a stunning natural phenomenon: ice stacking. With the wind blowing during 8°F (-22°...
From 2012, Irkutsk-based Russian percussionist group Etnobit found a spot on Lake Baikal -- the world's deepest lake and largest freshwater lake, as well as the world's oldest lake, dating back 25 million years -- whe...
The rivers surrounding New York City no longer freeze over completely --despite a lot of ice, water salinity and boat traffic keep the waterways open -- but farther north on the Hudson River, in this case near Germant...
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