Surprising Secret Ingredients to Clean Up Environment: Liquid Metals
Liquid metal catalysts show great promise for capturing carbon and cleaning up pollutants, requiring so little energy they can even be created in the kitchen….
Liquid metal catalysts show great promise for capturing carbon and cleaning up pollutants, requiring so little energy they can even be created in the kitchen….
Smallholder poverty in sub-Saharan Africa is often linked to sandy soils, which hold little water and are low in nutrients. New technology may be able…
Groundwater is the world’s largest source of freshwater and it is of vital importance for food production. Increasing extraction of groundwater in recent decades has…
A toxic cocktail of chemical pollutants in U.S. drinking water could result in more than 100,000 cancer cases, according to a peer-reviewed study from Environmental…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 farmers have been forced to pump large amounts of groundwater in response to the historic drought, causing the land to sink and putting nearby…
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….
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 rapidly…
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 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…
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…
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…