Researchers have now shown that they can assemble DNA nanostructures in a solvent containing no water. They also discovered that adding a small amount of water to their solvent increases the assembly ...

Water can change its solubility characteristics depending upon what it interacts with. Water isn't just a universal solvent that remains unaffected by its interactions. New publications from North ...

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Life on early Earth seems to have begun with a paradox: while life needs water as a solvent, the essential chemical backbones of early life-forming molecules fall apart in water. Our universal solvent ...