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Close-up of the process of harvesting winter ice to make 'air conditioners' for the Emperor at the end of the Qing Dynasty
Old photographs from the late Qing Dynasty depict the busy ice harvest season in Beijing.
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Archeology
Discovered a mammoth cemetery more than 210,000 years old
Paleontologists have found five fossilized mammoth skeletons from the last ice age in southwestern England.
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Science warns of disaster 'Icemageddon' accompanied by severe weather
Severe weather for days in Alaska (USA) followed by record low temperatures and downpours has prompted authorities to warn of 'Icemageddon'.
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Mysterious disk discovered inside the broken ice in Antarctica
Through the Google Earth application, users discovered the mysterious disk in the broken ice in Antarctica.
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Is cremation obsolete? The 'new funeral' method was tested in Wuhan
As we all know, birth, old age, sickness, and death are inevitable, even unavoidable in human life, so we can only choose to accept death openly.
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Admire the rare phenomenon of 'ice tentacles' in Antarctica
Strong winds and irregular ocean currents have created beautiful ice tentacles on the surface of the water in the middle of the Ronne Ice Shelf.
Environment
Study: Himalayan glaciers are melting at an 'unusual' rate
Himalayan glaciers are melting at an alarming rate. A new study has shown that over the past 40 years, the ice
1001 mystery
77 alien-like creatures in the 6,000-year-old 'ice grave'
Scientists have found 77 species of anomalous creatures in the depths of Antarctica's Ekström ice shelf, which is thought to be dead land.
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ESA probe detects water near the surface of Mars
ESA's ExoMars spacecraft discovered 'a significant amount of water' hidden under the Martian surface in the Grand Canyon system.
Environment
Scientists fear giant Antarctic glacier will break
Scientists fear the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica is fracturing and could shatter as easily as a car window.
New technology
Bubble screen - Technology can prevent hurricanes from hitting the US
Bubble screens, the technology that keeps Norwegian bays ice-free in winter, could prevent future powerful storms in the Gulf of Mexico.
Archeology
Extinct species lurking in Canada, living for another 5,000 years no one knows?
New DNA evidence reveals the famous woolly mammoth existed in Canada as long as 5,000 years ago, after being thought to be extinct worldwide for several millennia.
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Breaking the record for the last freezing point of water
TipsMake - Scientists at the University of Houston have just broken the record for the freezing point of water, and discovered the huge implications of this in energy sy…
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New type of insoluble ice can keep cold for 13 hours, reuse many times
Scientists have created a new type of ice with a composition of more than 90% water, which is antibacterial and reusable many times.
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Americans rush to hunt prehistoric monsters
In the cold winter, many families from Wisconsin (USA) have a tradition of gathering on a lake in the hope of catching one of the giant fish beneath the ice.