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'Coffee-Ring Effect' Applied to Provide Fast, Cost-Effective Analysis of Tap Water

“What is in your water?” has become a progressively anxious question for many people in the U.S. and other regions of the world. An answer for that is neither easy nor cheap. Recently, researchers are reporting that they are applying the familiar “coffee-ring effect” to test multiple components in one drop of water easily, quickly and inexpensively. And in the future, the public could use the technique to analyze the tap water they are using.

23 Aug 2017

MIT Researchers Suggest Alternate Approach to Urban Water Planning

If you live in the developed world, safe water is usually just a faucet-turn away. And yet, global warming, drought conditions, and population growth in coming decades could change that, ushering in an era of uncertain access to water.

14 Aug 2017

MIT’s Energy Startup Develops New Method to Reduce Water Usage in Power Plants

Infinite Cooling, an energy startup founded at MIT, pitched its business plan to a panel of energy experts and won first place at the second annual Cleantech University Prize (UP) national competition in Austin, Texas, hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

9 Aug 2017

New Study Finds that Increased Precipitation Could Overload Waterways with Excess Nitrogen

If climate change is not curbed, increased precipitation could substantially overload U.S. waterways with excess nitrogen, according to a new study from Carnegie’s Eva Sinha and Anna Michalak and Princeton University’s Venkatramani Balaji published by Science.

28 Jul 2017

New Research Finds that Soil Could Filter Emerging Contaminants from Wastewater

There is considerable uncertainty surrounding emerging contaminants in aquatic ecosystems and groundwater, and a recent Penn State study of compounds from pharmaceuticals and personal care products didn't add much clarity.

20 Jul 2017

Environmental Analysis – Dedicated Solution for Online Monitoring of Chromate in Waste Water Streams

Metrohm Process Analytics is pleased to present a solution for the online monitoring of chromate (hexavalent chromium) in industrial waste water streams. This turn-key solution uses photometric determination and is performed on the ICON Analyzer, a dedicated online photometer for water and wastewater analysis.

From Metrohm USA Inc. 12 Jul 2017

New Study Reveals that Certain Hotspots in US will Experience Severe Reductions in Crop Yields

A new study by MIT climate scientists, economists, and agriculture experts finds that certain hotspots in the country will experience severe reductions in crop yields by 2050, due to climate change's impact on irrigation.

12 Jul 2017

Ability to Study Cubic Ice in Laboratory Could Aid Climate Change Models

Normally, a freezer will not have these kinds of ice cubes

11 Jul 2017

Recent Study Finds that Large Amounts of Carbon Dioxide Remain in Surface Waters

If there is anywhere for carbon dioxide to disappear in large quantities from the atmosphere, it is into the Earth's oceans. There, huge populations of plankton can soak up carbon dioxide from surface waters and gobble it up as a part of photosynthesis, generating energy for their livelihood.

6 Jul 2017

Researchers Study the Importance of Manganese Testing in Drinking Water

Researchers from the Kansas State University have now found what might be a sidekick of arsenic in the realm of heavy metal poisoning. The sidekick element mandates in-depth investigation in order to acquire knowledge of its impact on health of the humans.

28 Jun 2017