Water is weird… really weird. We’re gonna dive into the controversial chemistry and heated debates around the science of what gives water it’s super unusual properties, and maybe bust a popular water myth along the way.
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Credits:
Executive Producers:
Hilary Hudson

Producers:
Elaine Seward
Andrew Sobey
Darren Weaver

Writer/Host:
Alex Dainis, PhD

Scientific consultants:
Michelle Boucher, PhD
Xijie Wang, PhD
Emiliano Brini, PhD
Brianne Raccor, PhD


Sources:
How Water’s Properties Are Encoded in Its Molecular Structure and
Energies:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/...

Why is the maximum density of water at 4°C?
https://socratic.org/questions/why-is...

A Two-State Picture of Water and the Funnel of Life:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.02757.pdf

What is life?-lecture: Lars G M Pettersson:
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Dipole-Dipole Force:
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/int....

Nuclear Quantum Effects in Sodium Hydroxide Solutions from Neural Network Molecular Dynamics Simulations:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs....

Nuclear quantum effects enter the mainstream:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4157...

Supercooled water reveals its secrets:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...

Why Water Doesn’t Behave Like a “Normal” Liquid:
https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/20...

Direct Evidence in the Scattering Function for the Coexistence of Two Types of Local Structures in Liquid Water:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs...

A mechanism for water splitting and oxygen production in photosynthesis:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28368...

Origin of Water’s Strange Properties: Scientists Capture a “Quantum Tug” Between Neighboring Water Molecules:
https://scitechdaily.com/origin-of-wa...

SLAC Megaelectronvolt Ultrafast Electron Diffraction Instrument: MeV-UED:
https://lcls.slac.stanford.edu/instru...

Supercritical water anomalies in the vicinity of the Widom line:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4159...

Markov state model of the two-state behaviour of water:
https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/132...

New study provides evidence for decades-old theory to explain the odd behaviors of water:
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2020/0...

Second critical point in two realistic models of water:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...

What is life?-lecture: Lars G M Pettersson:
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