Scientists at the US Department of Energy have discovered that water is able to exist in six different physical locations at the same time. The researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory published their findings in the journal Physical Reviews Letters. This fourth new form water can take (aside from it being solid, liquid or gas) was discovered through the use of quantum mechanics. Vice News reports: “It isn’t something that your physicist much less your average guy can go out and stand on his front porch and see,” said Oak Ridge geologist Larry Anovitz. While this new water form might not be tangible like snow or fog, its discovery has a lot of potential applications, especially in biology, said Johnjoe McFadden, a professor of molecular genetics at the University of Surrey in Britain. “One of the things we know about life is that water is absolutely fundamental to it,” McFadden said. “Everything involved in life at the molecular level involves water. It’s really pushing quantum mechanics really deeply into the heart of life and revealing that it’s fundamental to life.” Quantum mechanics is a branch of physics that investigates how matter behaves when it’s infinitesimally small. Whereas the physics that many people [...]