Plant diseases limit the output of agricultural workers and cause hundreds of billions of dollars in global crop production loss each year. When plants get wet they are at risk of contracting diseases ...

When you put your hand in water, you know it's wet. When you step outside on a humid day, you feel wetness against your skin. When you sweat, it feels wet running down your face. But how exactly do ...

Photo: Flickr/martinak15At first glance, this may seem like a completely moronic question. I mean, wet stuff feels wet because... well, it's wet. Duh! But when you stop to think more deeply about it ...

At first glance, whether water is wet seems like the simplest of questions with an answer rooted in direct experience. If it’s raining and you forget your umbrella, you get soaked—thus, water is wet.

Water isn't wet. Wetness is a description of our experience of water; what happens to us when we come into contact with water in such a way that it impinges on our state of being. We, or our ...