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Water is made up of H₂O molecules that are polar, meaning they have a slightly positive side and a slightly negative side. This polarity creates strong cohesion, causing water molecules to attract one ...
A new paper argues that materials like wood, bacteria, and fungi belong to a newly identified class of matter, 'hydration solids.' The new findings emerged from ongoing research into the strange ...
For the first time, Northwestern University scientists have watched water molecules in real-time as they prepared to give up electrons to form oxygen. In the crucial moment before producing oxygen, ...
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Asteroids are notoriously difficult to study in detail from afar — hence the well-deserved celebration when material is brought back to Earth for analysis. But now, scientists have for the first time ...
Can fungi influence the weather? Turns out, they just might. An international group of researchers that includes Virginia Tech's Xiaofeng Wang and Boris A. Vinatzer discovered the identity of fungal ...
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Water drops plinking at the bottom of a sink may by spawned by the jiggling of individual molecules. A stream of liquid, like one from a trickling faucet, separates into droplets as it falls. This ...