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X-ray laser pulses probe water droplets

X-ray laser pulses probe water droplets like these to discover water’s hidden (and sometimes bizarre) properties.

X-ray laser pulses probe water droplets like these to discover water’s hidden (and sometimes bizarre) properties.

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Scientists at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have made the first structural observations of liquid water at temperatures down to minus 51 degrees Fahrenheit, within an elusive “no man’s land” where water’s strange properties are super-amplified.

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