Researchers discovered that light can cause evaporation of water from a surface without the need for heat. This 'photomolecular effect' could be important for understanding climate change and for ...

Green light means “go.” That might apply to evaporating water molecules too. Visible light, especially that of a greenish hue, might spur water to evaporate, researchers report in the Nov. 7 ...

“God made the bulk; the surface was invented by the devil.” This statement, attributed to the Nobel prizewinning physicist Wolfgang Pauli, who died in 1958, is perhaps even more on point today than it ...