Water – Page 6
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Research
Options expanded for origin of Earth’s water
Enstatite chondrite meteroites contain enough hydrogen to have supplied three to five times the total mass of water in Earth’s oceans
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Business
Questions surround deadly Beirut blast
Ammonium nitrate explosion that killed at least 135 appears to have been caused by poorly-stored cargo from an abandoned vessel
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Business
Deadly Indian incidents highlight relaxed regulations
Concern over human and environmental cost of reforms aimed at ease of doing business
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Business
Appeals court cuts damages further in glyphosate cancer case
Judgment retains verdict that Bayer-Monsanto’s herbicide caused US man’s cancer
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Feature
Atmospheric water harvesting
With drought threatening many parts of the world, Nina Notman explores technologies for sucking water out of thin air
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Research
Spectroscopy from space lets satellites spy out ocean plastic patches
The technique could show where and how floating plastic patches form, and raise awareness of plastic pollution in the oceans
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Research
Water’s boat shape resolves disagreement between theory and experiment
Study finds that chair and flat hexamers can’t explain structure of thin layers of water
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Opinion
Water funny liquid
Raise a glass to the essential ingredient to life, of endless fascination to chemists
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Feature
The weirdness of water
Can we explain the strange properties of water by thinking of it as two different liquids? Rachel Brazil dives into the ongoing debate
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Research
Metallic trihydrogen oxide could explain ice giants’ strange magnetic fields
Compound stable under extreme conditions might be source of Uranus’ and Neptune’s enigmatic magnetosphere
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Opinion
Tackling climate change from the lab
Energy and water wasted in the lab can quickly outweigh household use
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Research
Prozac and methamphetamine likely responsible for toxins in tap water
Antidepressant and stimulant amine drugs are potential precursors for some of the most toxic compounds formed during water disinfection
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Business
Solar-powered water purification
Majico’s photocatalytic water kiosks are increasing access to affordable drinking water in Tanzania
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Research
Water pipe technology kills microorganisms with localised electric field
Flowing water could power smart pipes
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Research
High-purity cubic phase offers new insight into ice physics
Cubic ice without stacking defects could help improve understanding of ice polymorphism
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Research
Water treatment byproducts linked to thousands of bladder cancers in Europe
Call for countries to do more to drive down levels of trihalomethanes produced during disinfection
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Research
Elusive water ionisation intermediate found using ultrafast x-ray pulses
H2O+ cationic hole never directly observed before
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Research
Uranium compound unearths questions on nuclear waste
Environmental chemists place sub-surface uranium chemistry under the spotlight
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Research
Uranium-reducing electrode cleans up groundwater
Electrochemical technique could limit spread of uranium at contaminated sites
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Research
Tiny water droplets reveal minimum number of molecules to make ice
Ice as we know it ceases to exist in droplets that fall below this threshold