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A new study conducted by experts at the Rice University and the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) determined that materials coated with a layer of the 2D carbon compound graphene remain wettable.
This is a very important finding, because it suggests that the single-atom-thick material is largely invisible to w... |
24 January 2012
19:31 GMT |
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A paper published in the latest issue of the esteemed journal Environmental Health proposes that the solvent tetrachloroethylene (PCE), which used to be used for treating drinking water, and is currently a staple of dry cleaning, may be linked to the development of mental illnesses.
If confirmed, the correlation co... |
24 January 2012
08:03 GMT |
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A technology that repels water from electronics at a molecular level may be used by Apple and Samsung in their forthcoming devices, according to a spokesperson for HZO, the company that makes the product.Pocket-lint has learned from HZO that the company is in the process of signing deals with major smartphone makers,... |
17 January 2012
04:46 GMT |
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A group of investigators based at the US Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory announces the development of a study technique that allows semiconducting carbon nanotubes to identify and track individual molecules through water.
This finding is extremely important due to the massive number of ph... |
11 January 2012
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Bothered by the fact that tons of perfectly edible food end up in trash containers every year, a team of Korean researchers have invented a high-tech green gadget that turns leftovers from our plates into water.
Even though the concept might appear to be too advanced to be true, it has actually been implemented and... |
29 December 2011
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There is nothing better than a giant project involving renewables that, apart from providing a green source of energy, is restoring the balance of endangered species.
A new video, launched by the Environment Agency, reveals that the largest hydropower scheme in the south east of England meant to supply the Windsor C... |
28 December 2011
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A team of experts from Singapore has managed to give a new eco-friendly purpose to old glass. Scientists from Ngee Ann Polytechnic have designed a recycled glass-based porous ceramic membrane, used to purify raw water.
Their solution, launched through an ample project entitled GLASSwater is both green and cost-effec... |
22 December 2011
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Bioluminescence expert Edith Widder has revealed that up to 90% percent of the underwater creatures generate light. Widder states that marine animals often use their own light to look for food and detect predators, the New York Times informs. The researcher exploits this extraordinary feature to monitor levels of pol... |
19 December 2011
11:32 GMT |
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Neti pots, devices used for the treatment of conditions such as hay fever and the common cold, are believed to be responsible for the deaths of two people over the past few weeks. The users put tap water in the instruments, and got contaminated with a brain-eating microorganism.
These instruments work by forcing wat... |
16 December 2011
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The Environmental Protection Agency EPA has recently announced it is going to support a stricter set of regulations aiming to control the activity of some of the most polluting US power plants that develop oil and coal-burning operations. The anticipated changes are expected by the end of this week, believed to cur... |
13 December 2011
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A recent report indicates companies behind processes involving hydraulic fracturing are aware of the risks implied by this technique and communicate them to shareholders but fail to inform the public opinion. The current legal framework compels enterprises to reveal the emerging threats posed by their operations, t... |
12 December 2011
05:23 GMT |
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The US Environmental Protection Agency is keen on improving the lives of people living in the US, since it is highly concerned about the current situation of urban waters in this country. Through its Urban Waters program, the organization will put $1.8m (€1.3m) on the table for the development of projects meant... |
8 December 2011
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The utility company operating the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is under the spotlight once again. Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) has recently announced it might be forced to dump water treated for radiation contamination in the ocean, because it could no longer have enough space to store more.
Their announce... |
8 December 2011
04:14 GMT |
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Experts analyzing data from the NASA Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Opportunity announced on Wednesday, December 7, that the rover recently discovered a vein of minerals on the surface of Mars. The material, which appears to be gypsum, could have only been deposited by water.
The finding represents an extremely impor... |
8 December 2011
02:32 GMT |
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Operating and maintaining profitable ski resorts often cost a lot and require a significant amount of energy. Nowadays, when climate change seems to be one of the hottest topics, eco-conscious resort owners say they have found a new way of curbing greenhouse gas emissions while saving more than a few extra dollars.
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7 December 2011
08:35 GMT |
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BP has launched a serious accusation, incriminating Halliburton of destroying important evidence that could shed some light on the case of the major Gulf of Mexico oil spill that took place in 2010.
BP has tried to shift responsibility, affirming in court that the US oil services company failed in providing “... |
6 December 2011
03:54 GMT |
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The innovative Plant Pod launched by Alastair Crompton makes all the right decisions, saving you a lot of time and effort. The company has developed a smart pot that actually hydrates itself, without needing your help.
Tending to a garden is always a time-consuming activity. Taking care of plants usually requires b... |
2 December 2011
09:59 GMT |
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Caroline Spelman, the British Environment Secretary, notes that homeowners will have to start saving water, given that this winter is expected to bring poor rainfalls. In her opinion, a severe drought is “almost certain” for next summer. As a result, people from the UK will have to forget about watering... |
1 December 2011
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On the first day of the Durban summit, International Rivers and Friends of the Earth International launched a video showing that dams are the wrong answer to the climate change phenomenon. The Google Earth 3D tour raises the public opinion's level of awareness regarding the connection between dams and current ... |
28 November 2011
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As the International Year of Forests is coming to an end, the situation of African woodlands remains the same. While a few governments and environmentally-friendly organizations are saying that planting exotic trees in the endangered ecosystem represents an efficient response to severe drought and climate change, mos... |
26 November 2011
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While competing with other eco-conscious enterprises operating in the same line of business, Puma decides to launch a report in which the it highlights its impact upon the environment, associating the dollar value for its water consumption, GHG emissions, land use, air pollution and waste it triggered in 2010, with t... |
24 November 2011
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Since the beginning of our efforts to discover alien life on other worlds, a lot of the effort has been focused on discovering exoplanets orbiting in the habitable zones of their stars. But what awaits discovery if we look in the habitable zone of methane? What astronomers are focused on is planets in an area where ... |
17 November 2011
08:48 GMT |
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A new study conducted using the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope observed L1157, a stellar nursery located about 800 light-years away from Earth. The investigation was finally able to determine why the area contains such large amounts of water and ammonia.
A model created by Izaskun Jimenez-Serra, an astronomer at the ... |
9 November 2011
10:53 GMT |
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A team of astronomers from the Brown University, in Providence, Rhodes Island, says that the current interpretation of geological data collected from Mars may be wrong. The experts propose that the vast majority of water that once flowed on the surface of the Red Planet can still be found underground.
This new idea ... |
3 November 2011
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Mission controllers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, say that the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover Curiosity will have the ability to look for signs of water trapped in minerals underneath the surface of the Red Planet.
The Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons (DAN) instrument will be ... |
21 October 2011
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Since the 1960s, orbiters and rovers that flew to Mars have been observing geological features called rilles in a region of the planet called Hesperia Planum. Even now, researchers can't say for sure where these features originated, or how they came to be.
The best way to describe rilles is as series of narro... |
13 October 2011
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Upon closer inspection of the Martian surface, one cannot but stop and stare in amazement at the canal-like features crossing the landscape. Many astronomers hypothesized that these were constructs belonging to a long-lost Martian civilization, but the idea has since been discredited.
In modern times, the attribu... |
6 October 2011
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The Herschel Space Observatory – the largest and most complex telescope ever deployed to space – has recently detected water very similar to that in Earth's oceans in a distant comet. Both types of water exhibited nearly identical compositions, indicating that impactors may have brought water here.
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6 October 2011
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A group of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in Cambridge, announce the development of an “artificial leaf,” a device capable of harnessing solar energy in very much the same way, and with similar levels of performance, as a natural leaf. The new system's natural counterp... |
30 September 2011
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According to the results of a new scientific study, it would appear that the atmosphere surrounding the Red Planet may contain 100 times more water than originally calculated. The finding has considerable implications for climate models seeking to explain how Mars evolved over time.
The discovery could also lead t... |
30 September 2011
03:49 GMT |
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A new water disinfection technique developed by experts in the United States could be used to quench the thirst of more than 800 million people around the planet, who currently do not have access to clean water sources. The method was developed at the Purdue University, in Indiana.
The prototype water-disinfection... |
29 September 2011
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New data relayed to Earth by the NASA Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Opportunity indicate that it discovered an interesting rock, which may hold telltale signs of past water flows on the Red Planet. The formation is called Chester Lake, and has been under scrutiny since last week.Since arriving at the rim of Endeavour ... |
17 September 2011
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Though it covers three quarters of the planet, and makes up more than 70 percent of our bodies, water is still very little understood in comparison to what experts are discovering it can do. Recent discoveries are beginning to indicate that we don't really know that much about it. While the chemical has a relati... |
19 August 2011
10:22 GMT |
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In a new study, experts determined that a measured of chaos called entropy explains the behavior of water at the nanoscale, where the liquid tends to flow spontaneously through carbon nanotubes. In theory, this should not happen, because the vast network of hydrogen bonds that permeates water is extremely stable. Bre... |
12 August 2011
05:16 GMT |
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NASA officials announced yesterday, August 4, that they have identified seasonal landscape features on the surface of Mars that may be carved by liquid salty water. The discovery goes a long way towards confirming that it may be indeed possible to discover primitive life on our neighboring planet.Over the past few ye... |
5 August 2011
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Water is the most important life-sustaining chemical on the planet, and yet it also remains one of the greatest mysteries. While we do have a fairly good understanding of how it works, some of its behaviors cannot readily be explained. Researchers took a closer look at these in a new study.The study team – from... |
1 August 2011
05:29 GMT |
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One of the primary directives of the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover Curiosity is to discover water on the Red Planet. The latest data suggest that the 1-ton, Mini Cooper-sized robotic explorer may be successful in its quest.Curiosity even has a landing site now, after several years of endless debates and deliber... |
25 July 2011
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Experts announce the discovery of 140 trillion times more water than our entire planet holds, in an enormous cloud surrounding a quasi-stellar radio source (quasar). Astronomers say that this is the largest and oldest water cloud ever discovered in the Universe.
According to early estimates, the cloud is about 12 ... |
23 July 2011
02:12 GMT |
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Though many experts argue that carbon-based lifeforms are the most like to continue evolving, others believe that there are chemicals beside carbon that can underly life. Silicon is a good example for it, but other chemicals may be capable of this as well. Famed physicist Stephen Hawking is one of the experts who arg... |
18 July 2011
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An international collaboration of astronomers using the Chile-based APEX telescope managed to find a concentration of hydrogen peroxide in space. The chemical was never seen in interstellar space before.With the new data, chemists and astrobiologists could deepen their understanding about how the two most important m... |
7 July 2011
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Peering under a thin layer of iron oxide, or rust, could reveal important carbonate deposits on the surface of Mars, a new study indicates. Finding the mineral could confirm theories that the Red Planet once had liquid water flowing on its surface. Geologists know this from studying water-logged formations here on Ea... |
4 July 2011
04:47 GMT |
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The question of where water stops and where air begins is a very old, and difficult-to-answer one. Experts have been trying to do so for years, and now it would appear that they finally have an answer. The layer separating the two is as thin as the distance between two atoms in a hydrogen molecules. At the topmost la... |
13 June 2011
08:09 GMT |
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Princess Beatrice, the daughter of Sarah Ferguson Duchess of York, has always had issues with her weight but they seem a matter of the past now. Beatrice made an appearance over the weekend, looking slimmer than ever. Back in 2008, the Daily Mail says, Bea was photographed on the beach in vacation, in a two-piece swi... |
23 May 2011
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According to new calculations made by astronomers, it would appear that the layer of dry ice previously found at the south Martian pole is about 30 times thicker than initially calculated. Dry ice is a solid form of carbon dioxide. The chemical turns into a solid at minus 78.5 degrees Celsius (−109.3 °Fahre... |
22 April 2011
03:16 GMT |
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People living in the deep desert have difficult times getting water to drink, and experts want to fix this issue by turning to nature for inspiration. They are developing a device that is inspired by a special type of beetle living in an African desert. The insect, a member of the Stenocara gracilipes species, is cal... |
21 April 2011
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For millennia, people have used water to extinguish fire in most circumstances. Now, after thousands of years, experts are getting ready to move to the next fire-fighting technology, which uses electricity. Generally, we are told not to use water on power outlets, as this may cause unwanted interactions between the c... |
28 March 2011
05:25 GMT |
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An analysis of the most feasible, possible ways of traveling through space has revealed that using spacecraft powered primarily by water to explore Mars and other locations in the solar system might open up new possibilities in space exploration.Flights to the Red Planet, Venus, the Saturnine moons Enceladus and Tita... |
25 March 2011
08:41 GMT |
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The fact that we are heading towards a water crisis is no longer a secret to anyone. Given the rate at which the world's population is growing, we may soon find ourselves searching for the precious chemical all over the place. The World Water Day again brought these issues to the spotlight.Celebrated every March... |
24 March 2011
04:20 GMT |
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Certain types of bacteria were found to be able to produce biofilms that are significantly more efficient at repelling water than Teflon is. This is the same material used to make non-sticky pans. According to a new study, it would appear that these biofilms, belonging to only a few species of microorganisms, are the... |
31 January 2011
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Experts announce that one of the most likely reasons for which the Moon contains such large amounts of water and ice is that comets slammed into its surface billions of years ago. This allowed the chemical to accumulate, and get stored at the most suitable locations on the lunar surface. According to the new data, ... |
10 January 2011
02:56 GMT |
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