If you scoop a bucket of water out of the ocean, does it get lower? –Ellis, 6 and a half, Hobart This is a great question Ellis! The short answer is yes, but the change in water level will be ...

Unlocking the origins of life starts with understanding how simple space molecules turned into complex building blocks. To do ...

Water molecules on the surface of an electrode flip just before they give up electrons to form oxygen – a feat of nanoscale gymnastics that explains why the reaction takes more energy than it ...

Eliminating acid and base treatments from conventional desalination plants could save billions of dollars worldwide, making ...

What is the role of dissolved organic matter in the deep sea? In a study relating to this question, researchers from the ...

Saturn’s largest moon might not be the barren world it seems. Beneath Titan’s icy crust lies a vast ocean of liquid ...

These icy bodies contain organic molecules — and don’t fall into any known category of celestial object we’ve seen before.

Vapor pressure, along with dew point and relative humidity, is one of many ways to express the amount of water vapor in the ...

Monash University has developed a water filter to catch PFAS used in chip manufacturing and other industries. The chip industry has been lobbying for years against any progress on legislating PFAS-use ...

Researchers have developed a new filter membrane that can efficiently remove short-chain PFAS from water. Previous treatments ...

A student playing around with fluids and magnetic materials in the lab may have accidentally found an "exception" to the laws of thermodynamics, according to the authors of a new paper based on his ...