Water still has a few secrets to tell
Thursday, January 21, 2010 - 12:21
in Biology & Nature
(PhysOrg.com) -- We are used to thinking of water as a substance with relatively few secrets left. Its basic structure has been studied by high school students for decades, and water is considered essential to our survival, as it is so abundant. We tend to think that we've got water pretty well figured out, and what we know about it is of vital importance to life on Earth. But, as a team at Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg, Sweden, recently found, water isn`t as straightforward as we might think.