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Water covers most of Earth's surface, yet it behaves in ways that set it apart from nearly every other liquid. One of its most unusual traits is that it expands instead of contracts when it freezes. Scientists have long linked these odd behaviors to changes in water's microscopic structure as temperature and pressure vary, but they have lacked a consistent way to describe and compare those structural changes.
Now, researchers at the University of Osaka have tu...
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