The results have been published in PNAS
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When seeing two people move in a crowded room, one might wonder: did one of them step aside to let the other pass, or did the second person’s push make the first one step away? Watching the scene from above, there is no way to tell, but a group of researchers led by Ali Hassanali, ICTP Senior Research Scientist, and Alessandro Laio, professor at SISSA, have developed a method to tell the difference, and applied it to water molecules. Their results, which have been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), shed new light on water’s complex behaviour.