A few years ago, teenager Mia Heller came across an article in her local newspaper about ongoing water quality issues in her neighborhood in Warrington, Virginia. Tests had revealed that the water ...

Voids, or empty spaces, exist within matter at all scales, from the astronomical to the microscopic. In a new study, researchers used high-powered microscopy and mathematical theory to unveil ...

As restaurants, bars, businesses and schools reopen and mask requirements drop for the fully vaccinated, some people are asking how to bring in customers and students while still preventing COVID-19 ...

The development comes from the University of New South Wales. Here scientists have constructed a graphene-based, laboratory-scale filter. The filter is intended to remove the natural organic matter ...

Producing clean water at a lower cost could be on the horizon after researchers solved a complex problem that has baffled scientists for decades, until now. Producing clean water at a lower cost could ...

Filtration is a key step in many stages of downstream processing, from product recovery to removal of viral contamination. The last few years have seen many developments in filtration science, ...

Sand vs soil, which will be the better filter? Soil is so important to what we eat and drink! It helps filter rainwater, chemicals, and waste into clean water. Farming also relies on healthy soil to ...