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Sports

Hockey pucks are frozen before a game 

Chilling rubber stops it bouncing unpredictably on the ice, so teams keep a bucket of frozen pucks on the bench all night.

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Harbin Ice Festival

Harbin carves a city out of river ice

Blocks are cut from the frozen Songhua River and built into full-scale castles lit from within by coloured LEDs. The site covers hundreds of thousands of square metres and melts every spring.

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Nature

Glacier ice looks blue because it is old

Centuries of pressure squeeze the air bubbles out of glacial ice. Dense, bubble-free ice absorbs red light and lets blue escape — the older the ice, the deeper the blue.

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