Electrons in the water
(World News Science)

It`s a popular tradition to throw coins into fountains in the hopes of having wishes granted. But what would happen if you could `throw` electrons into the water instead? That is, what happens shortly after an electron is injected into water? This decades-old question now has an answer, thanks to an article published in Nature Communications on January 16. The study is the result of collaboration among researchers at the University of Chicago, the U.S. Department of Energy`s (DOE) Argonne and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, and the University of California - San Diego. `Knowing the electron affinity of liquid water is crucial to understanding and modeling processes involving...