Did you know that tap water can have contaminants such as lead, arsenic, chlorine, pesticides and even particles from malfunctioning wastewater treatment, despite the Safe Drinking Water Act?

"It seemed like nobody wanted to touch it," says Leslie, a microplastics researcher in the Netherlands whose team was the first to detect these particles ... drinking water and food supply ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. An underground detector in China will sniff out mysterious ghost particles called neutrinos The $300 million ...

Emily Broadwell / British Antarctic Survey After spending the last few months stuck in a swirling ocean vortex, the world’s largest iceberg is floating ... took surface water samples from ...

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Conventional filtering technologies for water treatment have difficulty effectively filtering out microplastics of various sizes and shapes and are prone to clogging. Additionally, recovering small ...

QUEENS (PIX11) – A woman’s body was found floating in the water at Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens on Saturday, police said. Police responded to a 911 call at 7:20 a.m. The New York ...

Floating solar panels could offer a unique and timely response to these problems. This innovative technology, which involves installing solar panels on the surface of water reservoirs, provides ...

Dec. 10, 2024 -- Do you need to drink more water every day? The answer might be more complicated than you think. “There's probably not a one-size-fits-all recommendation for how much water ...

For the first time, scientists have observed a collection of particles, also known as a quasiparticle ... it can levitate small objects such as water droplets. The researchers cooled down a ...

China is developing a high-speed train that could travel at 621mph while magnetically levitating on the tracks. Railway engineers in China are working to launch the world’s first working ...

Their new study, published in November in the journal Environmental Science and Technology: Air, showed that microplastics function as ice-nucleating particles ... Korean scientists have also designed ...