Water has always responded well to sunlight, evaporating faster under the sun than when heated by other energy sources. For years, scientists knew this happened but didn’t fully understand why. Now, a ...

Refined wood, salt, sunlight, and artificial intelligence might soon deliver clean drinking water from thin air—even in the driest regions of the world. That’s the promise behind a new invention ...

Cornell scientists have discovered a potentially transformative approach to manufacturing one of the world's most widely used chemicals—hydrogen peroxide—using nothing more than sunlight, water and ...

In a press release Researchers at the Laboratory of Nanoscience for Energy Technology (LNET) at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland announced they had developed a device ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. University of Alberta (U of A) researchers have discovered a method to harness sunlight and specialized materials to cleanly and ...

In a leap toward sustainable desalination, researchers have created a solar-powered sponge-like aerogel that turns seawater into drinkable water using just sunlight and a plastic cover. Unlike ...

Most of Earth’s water is in the oceans and too salty to drink. Desalination plants can make seawater drinkable, but they require large amounts of energy. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Energy ...