In this year leading up to Arizona’s centennial, Feb. 14, 2012, we’ll reprint a story or excerpts each day from the Arizona Daily Star or Tucson Citizen archives. June 18, 1912 Annual tests of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New study shows how sunlight's electric field speeds up water evaporation by breaking off water clusters at the surface. (CREDIT: ...

A new study is shedding light on why solar radiation is more effective than other forms of energy at causing water to evaporate. The key factor turns out to be the oscillating electric field inherent ...

Water has always responded well to sunlight, evaporating faster under the sun than when heated by other energy sources. For years, scientists knew this happened but didn’t fully understand why. Now, a ...