A contraption made from recycled tires can purify water for under $0.01 per liter
Imagine a device that not only purifies water but also recycles waste, all at an affordable price. Researchers at Dalhousie University in Canada have made …
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MIT engineers invented a cheap device that turns seawater into drinking water using solar energy
Engineers with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) may have just changed how we create drinkable water. The change comes courtesy of a small and …
Scientists discovered a bewildering new form of ice
Scientists have discovered a new form of ice through ball milling, which involves shaking frozen water around in a jar of ultracold steel balls. This …
Revolutionary magnetic solution instantly removes ‘forever chemicals’ from water
Scientists have devised an ingenious magnetic chemical remover that can clear dangerous “forever chemicals” from water, making it safe to drink again. Forever chemicals, which …
Drinking 8 glasses of water per day might be too much, new study says
If you’ve ever asked yourself how much water you should drink daily, you might have heard that 8 glasses is the magic number. That’s about …
Watch scientists turn pure water into metal
What if we could create metal made of water? Pure water itself is almost perfect as an insulator. Water found naturally in the world is …
New study says rainwater is now unsafe to drink
Rainwater is an important part of our planet’s ecosystem, and it helps fuel access to drinking water in many places. However, a new study suggests …
Incredible new gel film transforms air into drinking water
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have created a water harvesting gel capable of pulling buckets of water out of thin air. What …
Bottled water recall: This water may be contaminated with mold
Just like the foods we see recalled all the time, water can harbor dangerous microorganisms that are harmful to humans. That’s the case with one …
Alphabet wants your help to draw drinking water from the air
If there’s one thing to take from Denis Villeneuve’s excellent Dune reboot, it’s how important water is when you don’t have an abundance of it. …
NASA and Tide team up to deal with dirty laundry in space
Humans have been living in space for years, but it took endless research and planning to make that possible. Everything we take for granted on …
A Mars orbiter just detected something it’s never seen before
The atmosphere of Mars is thin and, compared to Earth, barely even there at all, but it can still teach us about the history of …
Should we stop visiting the Moon’s poles?
The Moon has water ice hiding near its poles, which is something that is a fairly recent discovery. The ice could hold clues about where …
Here’s why Jupiter’s moon Europa spews water into space
Europa, a moon of Jupiter, is one of the few places in our solar system where we might be able to find life. New research …
NASA announces discovery of water on the Moon
NASA announced the confirmation of water on the lunar surface. The discovery is big, but scientists had believed that there was water trapped within the …
Scientists spot hints of flowing water on asteroid’s surface
The asteroid known as Bennu has revealed some tantalizing secrets to NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Some rocks and surface features of the asteroid appear to indicate …
There may be way more water on Mars than we realized
Researchers think they’ve spotted signatures of liquid water hiding out beneath the surface of Mars. The south pole in particular is apparently a hot spot …
Rivers flowed on Mars for at least 100,000 years, researchers say
Mars had vast rivers of flowing water for tens of thousands of years, scientists now say. The discovery is based on images sent back by …
Ancient Mars may have had received water from two major sources
Ancient Mars may have received its wealth of water from a couple of major sources, new research suggests. Studying the content of Martian meteorites that …
NASA’s Juno probe reveals water in Jupiter’s atmosphere
For scientists studying Jupiter, there’s plenty to see. The gas giant has a wealth of personality, and its swirling storms and colorful streams of gas …
NASA just found a whole bunch of water ice hiding on Mars
When NASA eventually sends humans to Mars — a mission that might not take place for another decade or more — there’s a good chance …
There’s water all over the place in space, but not much of it
In the ongoing search for potentially habitable worlds outside of our own solar system, there are a number of things that astronomers are looking for. …
Water ice on the Moon may be billions of years old
There’s ice on the Moon. Various research efforts have shown this to be the case, and scientists are doing their best to find out exactly …
NASA’s Curiosity rover paints ancient Mars as a water-rich paradise
NASA’s Curiosity rover is currently cruising around an area of Mars known as the Gale Crater. It’s a massive impact site that has existed for …
Hubble just detected water vapor around a distant exoplanet
In the ongoing search for life beyond Earth, astronomers studying distant exoplanets are looking for a few key ingredients. For starters, a planet has to …
There may be far more water on the Moon than previously thought
When NASA and other space agencies from around the world eventually send humans back to the Moon in the coming decades they’ll likely be doing …
Massive dust storms may have sucked Martian water away
Mars as we know it today is a mostly dry, dusty place with a few pockets of ice in remote regions. It’s barren and we’re …
