New MIT Device Can Harvest Water From Desert Air
It seems like getting something for nothing, but you really can get drinkable water right out of the driest of desert air. Even in the…
Water
Researchers Reveal the Origin of Water’s Unusual Properties
Using x-ray lasers, researchers at Stockholm University have been able to map out how water fluctuates between two different states when it is cooled. At…
New Physical Model Explains the Origin of Water in Our Solar System
Equipped with Newton’s law of universal gravitation (published in Principia 330 years ago) and powerful computational resources (used to apply the law to more than…
Water Can Exist as Two Different Liquids at Low Temperatures
In a newly published study, researchers from Stockholm University detail the discovery that water can exist as two different liquids at low temperatures. We normally…
Yale Study Reveals Toxins in Fracking Fluids and Wastewater
New research from the Yale School of Public Health analyzed more than 1,000 chemicals in fluids used in and created by hydraulic fracturing (fracking), finding…
UCLA Nanoscientists Develop a Better Way to Remove Pollutants from Water
By using nanoparticles filled with enzymes, researchers from UCLA have developed a safer and faster way to remove pollutants from water. A team of researchers…
Researchers Use a Small Electric Charge to Control the Bubbles of Boiling Water
For the first time, scientists from MIT have found a way to control the boiling process. The system could improve the efficiency of electric power…
California Valley Land Continues to Sink
California farmers have been forced to pump large amounts of groundwater in response to the historic drought, causing the land to sink and putting nearby…
NASA Study Provides New Estimates for the Global Water Cycle
A newly published study from NASA helps answer questions about droughts, flooding and how much water is on the move and where it is going….
GRACE Reveals That a Third of Big Groundwater Basins Are in Distress
Using data from NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment satellites, two new studies reveal that about one third of Earth’s largest groundwater basins are being…
Heritage of Water Ice in the Solar System
New research from astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reveals that water in our solar system almost certainly derives in large part from interstellar…
A Cost-Effective Treatment for Salty Water from Fracked Wells
A newly published study reveals how electrodialysis can provide cost-effective treatment of salty water from oil and gas wells. The boom in oil and gas…
Sun-Powered Desalination Technology Could Provide Drinking Water for Villages
A newly published study from MIT shows that a desalination technology powered by solar panels could provide enough clean drinking water for many of the…
Geophysicists Detect Evidence of Large Amounts of Water in Earth’s Mantle
New research reveals large quantities of water bound up in the rock located deep in the Earth’s mantle. Researchers have found evidence of a potential…
First Structural Observations of Liquid Water at Temperatures Down to Minus 51 Degrees Fahrenheit
A newly published study details the first structural observations of liquid water at temperatures down to minus 51 degrees Fahrenheit. Menlo Park, California — Scientists…
New Study Reveals Amount of Water Present in the Moon May Have Been Overestimated
New computer simulations show that the unusually hydrogen-rich apatite crystals observed in many lunar rock samples may not have formed within a water-rich environment, revealing…
Billion Year Old Water Could Hold Clues to Life
Researchers from the universities of Manchester, Lancaster, Toronto and McMaster have discovered ancient pockets of water rich in dissolved gases like hydrogen and methane pouring…
Boron Nitride Nanotubes Channel Osmotic Power
Using boron nitride nanotubes, researchers have discovered a new method for harnessing energy from the salinity difference between fresh water and salt water. The salinity…