A team of European scientists have confirmed a 100-year-old theory about the origin and behavior of so-called “hair ice”—a rare form of ice that looks like piles of white hair and only grows on rotten wood in extreme temperatures.
Hair ice looks like incredibly fine, billowing strands massed together. Lasting merely hours or only a few days before melting, its exact cause has been a mystery for nearly 100 years.
But not anymore.
A team of scientists led by Dr. Christian Mätzler from the Institute of Applied Physics at the University of Bern in Switzerland, published a study in the journal Biogeosciences attributing the formation of hair ice to the common fores
