Water is 'designer fluid' that helps proteins change shape, scie...

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Chemistry, Physics and Materials Sciences  Tue, 08/05/2008 - 23:00

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) According to new research, old ideas about water behavior are all wet.Ubiquitous on Earth, water also has been found in comets, on Mars and in molecular clouds in interstellar space.

Now, scientists say this common fluid is not as well understood as we thought.

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