Earth Sciences
Sep 19, 2022
Bringing arsenic-safe drinking water to rural California
According to the Rev. Dennis Hutson, people used to love the taste of Allensworth's water.
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Nanophysics
Sep 14, 2022
New phases of water detected
Scientists at the University of Cambridge have discovered that water in a one-molecule layer acts like neither a liquid nor a solid, and that it becomes highly conductive at high pressures.
Materials Science
Aug 31, 2022
Novel technology to improve the high permselectivity and anti-biofouling properties of RO membranes
Reverse osmosis (RO) has attracted wide attention for its extensive applicability in brackish water and seawater desalination. Thin-film composite (TFC) polyamide (PA) RO membranes consisting of a dense separating layer and ...
Nanomaterials
Aug 25, 2022
Understanding outsize role of nanopores
There is an entire aqueous universe hidden within the tiny pores of many natural and engineered materials. Research from the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis has shown that when such materials ...
Space Exploration
Aug 22, 2022
Growing alfalfa in Martian-like soil and filtering water using bacteria and Martian basalt
A team of researchers at Iowa State University has found that it may be possible to grow alfalfa successfully on Mars. The group has written a paper describing their work and have published it on the open-access site PLOS ...
Biochemistry
Aug 15, 2022
Catching up with quicksilver: MXene material can counter mercury contamination
Researchers estimate that mercury emissions in the atmosphere have quadrupled since the Industrial Revolution. The heavy metal, generated by burning fossil fuels and the disposal of industrial and medical waste, has become ...
Environment
Aug 12, 2022
Drought tightens its grip on Morocco
Mohamed gave up farming because of successive droughts that have hit his previously fertile but isolated village in Morocco and because he just couldn't bear it any longer.
Environment
Aug 11, 2022
California plans to boost water supply as drought bites
More than two decades of devastating drought worsened by man-made climate change mean California must harvest, recycle and desalinate much more water, the state's governor said Thursday.
Environment
Aug 11, 2022
With California expected to lose 10% of its water within 20 years, Gov. Newsom calls for urgent action
With California enduring historic drought amplified by global warming, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday released a new plan to adapt to the state's hotter, drier future by capturing and storing more water, recycling more wastewater ...
Ecology
Aug 3, 2022
Record amount of seaweed is choking shores in the Caribbean
Near-record amounts of seaweed are smothering Caribbean coasts from Puerto Rico to Barbados, killing fish and other wildlife, choking tourism and releasing stinky, noxious gases.
