Imagine an ordinary Tuesday. You wash your hair, put on deodorant, drink coffee, pack lunch in a plastic container and ...

Omar Yaghi has spent much of his life thinking about empty space. The Jordanian-born chemist at the University of California, ...

Scientists are exploring light-activated nanoparticles to kill biofilms in stored drinking water, aiming to make household ...

UC Santa Barbara researchers have built a liquid material that stores sunlight in chemical bonds at nearly twice the energy density of lithium-ion batteries — and can release it as heat years later. A ...

Toxic “forever” chemicals are seeping into the water Americans drink every day. The more we learn about the potential health ...

The UT Association of Lab Managers presents a seminar to learn about water quality and its application in research.

Ammonia rarely makes headlines, but much of modern life depends on it. The compound of nitrogen and hydrogen is the key ingredient in the fertilizers that help feed roughly half of the world's ...

Over recent decades, harmful algal blooms have become increasingly common. These blooms often consist of bacteria called "cyanobacteria" in freshwater ecosystems. They can produce debilitating toxins, ...

Rochester’s new solar tech desalinates ocean water without brine waste while capturing lithium for cleaner battery supplies.

Researchers have demonstrated how to use the power of the sun to turn plastic waste, such as drink bottles, into clean ...

Moringa seeds remove 98% of microplastics from water. See how this ancient plant could revolutionize modern water treatment.

A new high-tech jacket pulls drinking water from thin air. The huge advance in fabric technology can collect up to one-and-a-half pints of drinkable water a day, say American scientists. Engineers at ...