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Stars, planets, people and petunias: everything emits a special kind of radiation and will, if it sticks around long enough, evaporate into nothing. That's the claim in a new study of physics effects ...

Contrary to what we all learned in elementary school science class, it turns out that heat may not be necessary to make water evaporate. Scientists at MIT have made the surprising discovery that light ...

Heating the water on the paper towel increases the motion of the water molecules. When the molecules have enough energy, they can move fast enough to break away from the attractions holding them to ...