Water
An innovative, low-cost seawater desalination device unveiled
The new technology can help provide clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations.
Newly created hydrogel tablet can rapidly purify contaminated water
One tablet can disinfect a liter of river water and make it suitable for drinking in an hour or less.
Removing lead from drinking water in an energy-efficient way
A relatively low-cost, energy-efficient approach to treating water contaminated with heavy metals.
Water in International Space Station is full of bacteria
Safeguarding clean water for spaceflight missions.
Scientists captured a ‘quantum tug’ between neighboring water molecules
The work sheds light on the web of hydrogen bonds that gives water its strange properties.
A high-speed camera captures how a water jet pierces a droplet
The results may help engineers develop a way to inject drugs without needles.
Bottled water is up to 3,500 times worse than tap water
A new study compares the health and environmental impacts of individual water consumption choices in Barcelona.
Bright reflections observed at Mars’ south pole may be clay, not water
Seeing may be deceiving.
Water and quantum magnets share same critical physics
The study may have consequences for the technology of qubits.
Plasma jet produces a more stable interaction with the water’s surface
This is the first time that this phenomenon has been reported.