Every evening during the summer of 2020, Xingyi Zhou went up to the roof of her lab building at the University of Texas at Austin to check on two plastic boxes containing radish plants. Plants in one ...

Rice University develops copper-aluminum material that destroys PFAS forever chemicals 100 times faster than current filters ...

Engineers find the hydrogel polyethylene glycol (PEG) doubles its water absorption as temperatures climb from 25 to 50 C, and could be useful for passive cooling or water harvesting in warm climates.

A diagram and a photograph of the water collection device. Credit: Guo, Y., Guan, W., Lei, C. et al./CC BY 4.0 You’ve probably seen a magic trick in which a performer makes a playing card, coin, or ...

Engineers synthesized a superabsorbent material that can soak up a record amount of moisture from the air, even in desert-like conditions. MIT engineers have synthesized a superabsorbent material that ...

New filtration technologies could absorb ‘forever chemicals’ at ‘ultrafast’ rate - Researchers say developments could greatly ...

Plants may have no muscles, but they can grow upwards against the strain of gravity and their roots can even shift soil and rocks – because their cells can absorb water to form strong structures. Now ...

One of the biggest difficulties in helping people affected by natural disasters is transporting and providing them with essential resources like safe drinking water. Researchers at Australia's RMIT ...