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Water molecules can arrange themselves to form much larger structures.

Take intricate snowflakes which form all by themselves in the right conditions.

Well now, researchers have created some delicate water structures of their own in the form

of microscopic ice mazes, with a little help from light.

The team took some sugar water and kept it at a temperature where ice crystals and water happily

coexist.

They then expose the H2O to infrared light of a frequency that is absorbed much more easily

by the ice crystals than it is by the water.

We thought that something interesting will happen when you illuminate ice which absorb more

than water because once the ice is melting, then it's become liquid water, and then it's absorbed less. So you have

kind of a negative feedback situation. And we did not know what will happen with this.

Physicist Ido Braslovsky from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The heating caused by the

light melted tiny holes in the crystals.

These holes sometimes joined up to form channels,

and the researchers watched as a labyrinth-like pattern gradually formed over the course of an hour.

And at some point we suddenly saw a whole spectrum of patterns that appear.

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