Photomolecular effect leading to water evaporation exceeding the thermal limit
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https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2312751120
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https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2312751120
There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.
Very interesting that they say it is peaking at 520nm, which is some shade of green.
Wonder if this might have played a role in plants being green. It is also surprisingly close to peak of sun spectrum. Maybe those two factors, combined with the existence of liquid water are favourable conditions for plants to develop the way they did.