Tiny nanotech device purifies water in less than half an hour using the sun
Researchers went full blown MacGyver with this nanotech water purifier.
Tag: water
3 facts about water that prove it doesn’t play by the rules
We drink it, we bathe in it, but it's stranger than you'd think.
Douglas fir forests are buckling under the heat, pausing their growth altogether
Silly trees, can't they set the thermostat lower, like the rest of us?
Six million Americans are drinking water with unsafe levels of toxic chemicals
Six million Americans might be drinking water with high levels of chemicals linked to cancer and other health problems.
Astronomers find water clouds on brown dwarf
Researchers working with the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii have made a stunning discovery: they found evidence of water clouds around ...
The most expensive things you can eat or drink
Gastronomy is becoming more of a science and less of an art with each passing day, but there are some ...
Huge waves of foam wash over Froggy Beach after last week’s storm
Stormy weather has an unusual upside if you happen to live on Australia's eastern coasts: giant waves of sea foam.
Mysterious dark streaks on Mars were actually made by BOILING water
Here's something you'd never expect to happen in a place with average temperatures of -67 degrees Fahrenheit -- Mars' flowing ...
Water squeezed in a new state: not liquid, nor solid or gas. Just pure quantum weirdness
Physicists have crammed water inside extremely small cracks about ten-billionth of a metre and found the molecules entered a never ...
Off-grid shower recovers and purifies 96% of water for you to use again
What's the most important resource on the planet? Water of course.
NASA finds vast quantities of frozen water on Pluto
New data provided by the New Horizons mission showed that water ice on Pluto is much more common than we ...
Cheap water filter is fantastically efficient: absorbs heavy toxic metals and can recover gold
Water pollution is a big issue, and so far there isn't one single system capable of reliably filtering toxic heavy ...
High-resolution spectroscopy could revolutionize seawater uranium capture
New imaging techniques might revolutionize the technologies currently used to capture uranium from seawater, as researchers gain a better understanding ...
Scientists reveal the first global groundwater map to date
A team of researchers has analyzed a swarm of data and created the first map that tries to estimate how ...
Do you know how much water goes to make your food?
Approximately 3.8tn cubic metres of water is used by humans annually with 70% being consumed by the global agriculture sector, ...
How the brain keeps your heat and water balance
What exactly makes you thirsty? Dehydration, obviously, but how does your brain know that your body needs water? And how ...
California drought is so tough L.A. is throwing 96 million balls to shade a reservoir
Faced with the worst drought in recorded history, officials in California are turning to all sorts of creative methods to ...
Massive aquifers beneath the world’s deserts might store more carbon than all living plants
Chinese researchers sampled water from an underground aquifer in the Tarim Basin and found these store vast quantities of carbon ...
Canadian fish know how to party: getting high on cocaine
New research shows that wastewater discharged from wastewater treatment plants in the Grand River watershed of southern Ontario has the ...
Drinking too much water can be fatal: just do it when you’re thirsty
Just before sport camps and marathon training begins in the US, doctors report a new set of guidelines that should ...
This computer clocks uses water droplets, manipulating information and matter at the same time
Computers and water don't mix well, but that didn't stop Manu Prakash, a bioengineering assistant professor at Stanford, to think ...
Autonomous underwater gliders plan missions and coordinate by themselves
Climate models and environmental monitoring missions are ever more reliant on autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) to scour the ocean depths ...
Swap a sweet drink for water and you get a 25% lower chance of diabetes
Swapping out a single daily sweet drink for water or unsweetened tea or coffee can lower the risk of diabetes ...
Just one billion years following the Big Bang, water may had been as abundant as it is today
Water may have been plentiful in some parts of the universe as early as one billion years after the Big ...
Sandwiching water between graphene makes square ice crystals at room temperature
In a most unexpected find, the same University of Manchester team that isolated graphene for the first time in 2003 ...
Mars may have had a huge ocean
Scientists have found tantalizing evidence regarding Mars' wet past - according to new research, the Red Planet may have once ...
Asteroid Vesta once had flowing water
According to a new study, water once flowed on the surface of Vesta, the second-largest asteroid in the solar system. ...
Laser-etching pattern turns any metal into a super-hydrophobic surface
A new generation of water-repellent products could be just ahead after researchers at University of Rochester demonstrated an amazing laser technique ...
Earth may have generated its own water – geologically
A new study may have finally found where Earth's water came from. There are currently two competing theories, with one ...
Adding water to solids can actually make them stronger, providing engineers with exciting new material composites
Some findings are just counterintuitive. I mean, you'd think that adding water to materials would always make them softer, right ...
Water didn’t come from comets, Rosetta analysis shows
As you might remember, a few days ago we were telling you about the fantastic success of the Rosetta mission ...
Simple, cheap purifying device provides clean water for 150,000 Kenyan students
Lack of clean water is a big problem in many poor areas of the world, and it's also one of ...
Robot Underwater Gliders show How Antarctic Ice is Melting
Over ninety percent of all the world's ice is in Antarctica, where it can run 4000-5000 meters deep. Yet, as ...
All Solar Systems likely have Water (just like ours!)
This flowchart picture shows the evolution of water as it starts out in the Sun's birth cloud, survives the destructive ...
Neptune-sized alien planet found to harbor water vapor in its atmosphere
Astronomers have discovered water vapor in the atmosphere of a new exoplanet - a planet from outside our solar system ...
Geologists find changes in well water chemicals prior to earthquakes
A team of geologists from Iceland, Sweden and Saudi Arabia has found changes in groundwater chemicals prior to earthquakes. They ...
Underwater glue inspired by shellfish might help repair ships
Shown here is the adhesion between the silica tip of an atomic force microscope and adhesive fibers made by fusing ...
US drinking water contaminated with gas because of faulty wells, but not fracking
Melanie Stetson Freeman/The Christian Science Monitor via Getty Images Stanford researchers traced back methane leaks from contaminated drinking water in ...
California issued rights for five times the water it actually has
How bad is California's drought? Just look above. Photo: Wiki California is facing one of its direst drought streaks, and ...
A 14-year-old girl invented a cheap water purifying system that could help millions
Photo: discoveryeducation.com Deepika Kurup, a 14 year-old girl who was awarded the $25,000 prize in The Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist ...
A simple, elegant and effective way of getting water out of thin air
Most people would are surprised when they hear that 768 million people don't have access to clean water. That's twice ...
Condensing towers could make water from thin air in the driest places on Earth
Artist impression of how two such tower might look like in a desert community. Photo: Architecture and Vision The Namib ...
Water found on dwarf planet Ceres may erupt from ice volcanoes
It takes the form of vapor plumes erupting into space and the theory the scientists have agreed upon is that ...
People show up at the hospital with burns after trying boiling-to-freezing water trick
This week a big part of North America was paralyzed after powerful winds and freezing gusts swept the continent in ...
Signs of water found in the atmosphere of 5 alien planets
Hot-Jupiter exoplanet illustration. (c) NASA Using the Hubble telescope, astronomers have identified faint signals of water in the atmosphere of ...
The Leidenfrost effect and a cool water maze
(c) YouTube screenshot Last week we showed you some great fluid dynamics at work - water bridges between two beakers ...
Amazing physics: floating bridges of water
(c) Sharif University of Technology The experiment: two identical glass beakers filed with deionized water are put into contact. A ...
The real color of water is blue — here’s why
While relatively small quantities of water appear to be colorless, water's tint becomes bluer and bluer as its thickness increases.
Peruvian engineers create water out of thin air through billboards
The Peruvian capital of Lima, along with its outskirts, is plagued by a vicious drought, which coupled with pollution and ...
Water demand for energy to double by 2035
Water and energy are two of the things we pretty much take for granted - but we shouldn't. Water is ...
