Is Water Wet? Plus: Neutron Star Weight and A Trick to Keep Experiences Feeling Fresh and New
In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:
- This Simple Trick Keeps All Your Favorite Experiences Feeling Fresh and New
- If You Drop a Feather and a Neutron Star in a Vacuum, Which Lands First?
Plus, Kristi in Pennsylvania asks: "Is water itself actually wet?" Here are the sources we discuss in our conversation:
- Is Water Wet? | Debate.org
- Is Water Wet? | UCSB ScienceLine
- Water's surface not all wet: Some water molecules split the difference between gas and liquid | ScienceDaily
- Ingenious: Richard Saykally \u2014 The chemist tells us why water is wet | Nautilus [VIDEO]
- Further Reading: Scientists Find That Water Might Exist in a Whole New State | Smithsonian
- Water Has a Quantum State | Curiosity.com
- The Triple Point Is When a Liquid Can Boil and Freeze at Once | Curiosity.com
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