Washington, DC--Water makes up more than 70 percent of our planet and up to 60 percent of our bodies. Water is so common that we take it for granted. Yet water also has very strange properties ...

Compare the density of water to that of different liquids. Krystal Balmes and Sahil from the Brooklyn Preschool of Science make predictions about the density of water to that of honey, corn syrup, and ...

Supercooled water is two of a kind, a new study shows. Scientists have long suspected that water at subfreezing temperatures comes in two distinct varieties: a high-density liquid that appears at very ...

One of the biggest drawbacks of electric vehicles – that they require hours and hours to charge – could be obliterated by new type of liquid battery that is roughly ten times more energy-dense than ...

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