Inspired by naturally occurring air bubbles in glaciers, researchers have developed a method to encode messages in ice. Published in Cell Reports Physical Science, the paper explains how the team ...

Scientists have devised a way of writing and storing messages by creating patterns of air bubbles in sheets of ice. By Alexander Nazaryan A new study by Chinese, Korean and Czech scientists points to ...

Information could potentially be stored in ice for millennia, simply by making subtle changes to the shape and position of internal bubbles, which can then be converted into binary or Morse codes.

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It has been cold enough, finally, for ice to start forming on our local lakes and ponds. Ice has been accumulating along the edge of our river and almost spanned it before the recent warm, rainy ...