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MIT engineers design an ultrasonic system to “shake” water out of an atmospheric water harvester. The design (two prototypes shown in photo) can recover captured water in minutes rather than hours.

Ultrasound shakes out drinking water from the air in minutes, study

Even the driest desert air carries a little moisture. Not much, of course, but enough that scientists have spent years trying to trap it,...

When ice freezes and thaws repeatedly

Ice dissolves iron more effectively than liquid water

New insights into the chemical activity of frozen landscapes.

Dead sea in israel

Dead Sea Giants Reveal Earth’s Ancient Pulse

Salt giants: Earth’s crystal time capsules.

Lake by cracked field

Cape Town’s water crisis reveals about ancient climate shifts and our future

New insights into how global climate change drives extreme droughts.

Scientists Confirm Exotic "Plastic Ice VII," A Rotating Water Ice Phase Under Extreme Conditions

4th form of water discovered

Scientists confirm exotic "Plastic Ice VII," a rotating water ice phase under extreme conditions

A panoramic photo

Mars: The lost beaches

Mars may have once been home to sandy beaches with gentle, lapping waves.

Nanostructured catalysts for efficient and clean hydrogen fuel

Water plays a crucial role in helping protein

Understanding normal gene regulation, and how it changes during disease.

Shackleton Crater

Science fiction to reality: Searching for a lunar oasis

New research may help astronauts locate viable water sources on the moon.

Child drinks from plastic bottle

Children’s IQs at Risk from fluoride in drinking water

Fluoride exposure: neurodevelopment and cognition.

Comet 67P

Water on comet has a similar molecular signature to the water in Earth’s oceans

This finding reopens the case that Jupiter-family comets.

Engineers fabricated a simple water filter modeled after the mobula ray’s plankton-filtering features. Pictured are pieces of the filter.

MIT engineers look to manta rays to design better water filters

The filter feeder's unique mechanism could potentially revolutionize the design of industrial water filters.

planet earth

Earth’s axis tilted nearly 80 centimeters east, study

Earth's pole has drifted toward 64.16°E at a speed of 4.36 cm/yr during 1993–2010.

Three Sisters Spring at Crystal River, Florida, on a cold morning.

Florida manatees thrive alongside humans

Historic accounts reveal manatee populations increased in the 1800s and 1900s alongside human populations.

Artistic representation of Mediterranean basin

Researchers identify two phases of Mediterranean’s 70% Water Loss

During the Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC) 5.96 to 5.33 million years ago, the Mediterranean Sea was cut off from the Atlantic Sea, which led...

Lafayette Meteorite

Meteorite reveals Mars had liquid water 742 million years ago

Lafayette Meteorite was exposed to liquid water while located on Mars.

CVS analysis

Water’s quantum secrets revealed

Researchers exclusively observed molecules participating in hydrogen bonds in liquid water.

Atmospheric Water Harvesting prototype

Frog skin-inspired technology captures atmospheric water

This groundbreaking technology even pulls large amounts of water from the air in low humidity

PhD student Eksha Chaudhary with the correlated vibrational spectroscopy setup. Credit: Jamani Caillet

New spectroscopy unveils the quantum secrets of water

Researchers have exclusively observed molecules participating in hydrogen bonds in liquid water.

mice living in a group.

The influence of nicotine on individual behavior

Inter-individual variability in mice behavior provides insight into decision making and addiction.

Stomidazolone, an imidazolone compound, reduces number of stomata by interfering MUTE-SCRM heterodimerization.

Novel chemical treatment reduces the number of water-regulating plant pores

A chemical compound that effectively regulates the density of stomata in model plants.

Mars with liquid water

New Insights: How Mars became unhabitable?

NASA’s Curiosity rover currently exploring Gale crater on Mars.

flowing water

Artificial groundwater recharge systems require improved monitoring of new chemicals

Also, a redesign of artificial groundwater recharge systems is needed.

clear flowing water

New filtration material can remove ‘forever chemicals’ from water

It can remove many contaminants, including "forever chemicals" and heavy metals.

food coloring tartrazine

A common yellow food coloring makes living skin transparent

For those who understand the fundamental physics behind this, it makes sense.

Abstract light painting in the dark

Scientists created a one-dimensional gas out of light

The method used in the experiment by the researchers could be used for examining quantum effects.

Mars Corona

NASA’s Hubble solves the mystery of Mars’ escaping water

Results upend the classical picture that scientists previously held.

Photo of Assistant Professor Edison Ang Huixiang holding a bottle of nanocatalyst powder. Credit: NIE/NTU Singapore.

Turning the Tide: How a New Nanocatalyst Cleans Water Like Never Before

A team led by Assistant Professor Edison Ang Huixiang from the National Institute of Education/Nanyang Technological University (NIE/NTU) Singapore, has developed a groundbreaking nanocatalyst...

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