During our freezing weather we've gotten several photos of freakish ice formations on pet water bowls and birdbaths and people wondering just what is going on.

Ice spikes are also known as ice towers, ... The water in the middle becomes squeezed in on all sides with nowhere to go. It's forced up and out through the hole in the ice.

Although ice spikes occur frequently, no one is entirely sure why, says Caltech physics professor Kenneth Libbrecht, who conducted a study on ice spikes in 2003. He enlisted a student to freeze ...

Ice spikes may very well be the perfect untraceable weapon, ... expanding as they go. ... a gummy bear-like ball can roll down a vertical wall all by itself—upending a core assumption in physics.

"I went away for the New Year and when I came back, I was walking up the garden, looked down and saw this spike shooting out of the bowl. "I couldn't understand what it was," he said. Mr Kirk said ...

Menacing Ice Spikes on Europa Could Endanger Future Landers The last thing a future mission to the moon needs is a 50 foot jut of ice. By John Wenz Published: Oct 08, 2018 11:42 AM EDT ...

In their experiments, the scientists also found the spikes were more likely to form when a fan was blowing, possibly creating “evaporative cooling that makes the top of the ice spike freeze more ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — You've probably never seen anything like it; a big block of ice with a frozen spike sticking out of the center. "They're rare, but we do see them on occasion," says WFMY Chief ...

But as it turns out, there's nothing too mysterious about "ice spikes," as ice physicists call them. "The 'pointy' ice cubes are a by-product of down-to-earth primitive design of icemaker trays ...

LEONARD, N.D. (CNN) --A mysterious structure sprouting from the Maple River has drivers craning their necks. Three days ago, Olley Eberhardt and his neighbors near Leonard noticed something ...