Since the rise of commercial chemical manufacturing in the 1940s, the environment has been plagued by a growing concentration of man-made substances like microplastics, PCBs, and bisphenols. There's ...

Rain could one day become a source of clean electricity, according to a group of scientists in Singapore. Their experiments have been able to generate power from water droplets falling through a ...

From drops to LEDs To test this, Soh and his team created a basic setup. They dropped rain-sized water droplets through a small metal needle and into a clear polymer tube just two millimeters wide ...

Since water flowing over certain surfaces can gain or lose charge, the team set out to harness this effect by generating electricity from rain-like droplets moving through a tube.

Despite significant drops in water levels of the Ganga and Yamuna rivers on Friday, flood-like conditions prevailed across ...

With another colleague, Anusha Vonteddu, I found that rainwater indeed stabilizes protocells against fusion. Rain, we believe, may have paved the way for the first cells. Droplets with meshy walls ...

The droplets, which behave like drops of cooking oil in water, have long been eyed as a candidate for the first protocells. But there was a problem.

These coacervate droplets act similarly to drops of oil in water, containing molecules like proteins, lipids, and RNA within them. Illustration of the earliest protocells in the rain.

In a 2019 study, Dr. Rykaczewski showed that desert rattlesnakes possessed this rain-catching ability, while king snakes, which live in the same areas but have smoother scales, do not.