Ice cubes are our most common way of shaping ice to cool our drinks, but in nature water forming into cubic ice is rare and possibly doesn’t even happen at all. Science alert reports that while ice can freeze in a number of ways, any discoveries of cubic ice in nature could actually be the freezing of other structural shapes that only end up looking cubic. But now researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences say they have created cubic ice and despite sounding kind of silly, it actually has wide reaching implications.