At very low temperatures, ice behaves in some very unusual ways!

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Thanks to advances in technology, scientists have been able to study the interactions of ice at temperatures as low as 3 - 90K above absolute zero. They found that ice can exist in a combination of crystalline and amorphous forms, in other words as a mixture of order and disorder.

Even more fascinating was that under certain conditions the ice produces forms which look like living organisms such as palm leaves or worms, or even bacteria. These life-like forms are called "biomimetic", but they are not alive.