China’s Chang’E-5 Lander Makes First Onsite Detection of Water on the Moon
A joint research team led by Profs. LIN Yangting and LIN Honglei from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences…
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We Asked a NASA Scientist: Is There Water on Mars? [Video]
Is there water on Mars? There sure is! It’s not exactly like water on Earth but Martian H20 can tell us a lot about the…
ExoMars Discovers Hidden Water in Mars’ Grand Canyon – The Largest Canyon in the Solar System
The ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has spotted significant amounts of water at the heart of Mars’ dramatic canyon system, Valles Marineris. The water, which…
Many Schools Have High Lead Levels in Drinking Water – Researchers Have a Better Way To Identify Them
Consuming lead can cause health problems for anyone, but children are particularly vulnerable because the element can interfere with their growth and development. While water…
Planetary Scientists Discover That Water Was Once Present in Arabia Terra on Mars
Team studied thermal inertia to understand how rock layers were formed. As part of a team of collaborators from Northern Arizona University and Johns Hopkins…
Mystery of the Origins of the Earth’s Water: Sun Is a Surprising Likely Source
Curtin University researchers have helped unravel the enduring mystery of the origins of the Earth’s water, finding the Sun to be a surprising likely source….
Climate’s “Hidden” Effects: Warming and “Browning” Lowers Nutrition, Increases Toxicity at Base of Food Web
Research looks at warming, browning effects on freshwater systems. Organisms at the base of the aquatic food web may be hidden from sight, but they…
Neutron Crystallography Takes a Deep Dive Into Water Networks Surrounding DNA
Water plays several important roles within the human body, even affecting the DNA in our cells. The entire surface of a DNA double helix is…
Water – A Requirement for Life As We Know It – Detected in a Galaxy Far, Far Away
New study marks most distant detection of required element for life as we know it in a regular star-forming galaxy. Water has been detected in…
Blasting the Zombie Out of Water-Saving Technology
A team of scientists, including experts from the University of Adelaide, suggest that reliance on modern irrigation technologies as a water-use efficiency strategy is a…
Managing Western US Water Resources in a Low-to-No-Snow Future
With mountain snowpacks shrinking in the western US, new Berkeley Lab study analyzes when a low-to-no-snow future might arrive and implications for water management. Mountain…
New Hydrogel Tablet Can Rapidly Purify Contaminated Water
As much as a third of the world’s population does not have access to clean drinking water, according to some estimates, and half of the…
Hot “Black Ice” – Come On In, the Water Is Superionic
The interiors of Uranus and Neptune each contain about 50,000 times the amount of water in Earth’s oceans, and a form of water known as…
Scientists Use Seasonal Variations To Find Water for Future Mars Astronauts
An international team of researchers has used seasonal variations to identify likely sub-surface deposits of water ice in the temperate regions of Mars where it…
Extremely Efficient New Method for Removing Heavy-Metal Contaminants From Drinking Water
Engineers have designed a relatively low-cost, energy-efficient approach to treating water contaminated with heavy metals. Engineers at MIT have developed a new approach to removing…
Lake Powell – The Second Largest Reservoir in the United States – Reaches New Low
Water levels at Glen Canyon Dam have fallen to their lowest level since 1969 and are still dropping. As North America approaches the end of…
New Estimate Makes Groundwater – Not Ice Sheets – Earth’s Largest Water Reservoir on Land
New research doubles volume of salty water two to 10 kilometers beneath the surface that could store waste fluids, sequester carbon, and direct our search…
Scientists Are First in the World To Watch Plants “Drink” Water in Real-Time
Scientists at the University of Nottingham have become the first in the world to find a way to observe how plant roots take in and…