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Simplest Water Cluster Leaves Behind its Spectral Fingerprint

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Richard J. Saykally, Physics 6, 22 (2013) – Published February 25, 2013
Water dimers have been detected in room-temperature water vapor, a key step toward understanding their effect on solar absorption and chemistry in the atmosphere.
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Transition Path Times for DNA and RNA Folding from Force Spectroscopy

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Gerhard Hummer and William A. Eaton, Physics 5, 87 (2012) – Published August 6, 2012
Experiments show that the times required to cross the barrier for the folding and unfolding of different nucleic acids are consistently about a few microseconds, despite many orders of magnitude differences in rate coefficients.