A serendipitous observation in a Chemical Engineering lab at Penn Engineering has led to a surprising discovery: a new class of nanostructured materials that can pull water from the air, collect it in ...

A team of scientists in the U.S. has accidentally discovered a new class of nanostructured materials that can pull water from the air, collect it in pores, and release it onto surfaces without any ...

Did the chemical components necessary to create water on Earth come from space or already exist here? One prevailing notion holds that asteroids containing either water of its building blocks ...

Researchers used sonicated carbon nanotubes to enable a reaction pathway that can pinpoint specific contaminants and break ...

Scientists from Duke University in the United States have found that lithium-rich brine solutions contain a high ...

Historically, water systems used chlorine, a chemical element ... authors were able to break down the compound and identify its composition. It was synthesized in a laboratory and sent for ...

An extremely persistent and highly mobile “forever chemical” byproduct is ... specific unstable or undesirable components, U.S. mineral water, meanwhile, must come “from a source tapped ...

A newly identified chemical byproduct may be present in drinking water in about a third of U.S. homes, a study found. Scientists do not yet know whether the byproduct is dangerous. But some are ...

Perchlorate, a chemical found in rocket fuel, has contaminated water and food and is more likely to be found in food given to babies and children, a study from Consumer Reports found. The chemical ...