The air contains water. We call it humidity. Even in the desert, there is water in the air. Scientists have been working on ...

Across some of the planet’s driest regions, engineers are racing to turn humidity into a reliable tap, using materials that ...

SINGAPORE, Dec. 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The world is on the brink of a freshwater crisis. Estimations indicate that by 2025, half of the world's population may reside in areas facing water scarcity.

Omar Yaghi thinks crystals with gaps that capture moisture could bring technology from “Dune” to the arid parts of Earth.

That’s the sound of Jeremy Cho’s atmospheric water harvesting device extracting humidity from the air to make usable water in Da Kine Lab at UNLV. The device, in its smaller state, looks like a box.

A research team has found a way to make more efficient the desorption of water-adsorption polymers used in atmospheric water harvesting and desiccant air conditioning. Harvesting water from the air ...

The system can be paired with any atmospheric water harvesting material to shake out drinking water in minutes instead of hours. (Nanowerk News) Feeling thirsty? Why not tap into the air? Even in ...

A groundbreaking eco-friendly technology inspired by plant and animal mechanisms has been developed in South Korea for the first time. The portable moisture-harvesting system collects moisture from ...

Atmospheric water harvesting (AWH) technologies represent a transformative approach to mitigating global water scarcity by extracting water vapour from ambient air. Recent advances have focused on the ...

MIT researchers have found a way to use the mechanical vibrations of sound waves to shake water molecules free from a storage medium. The breakthrough significantly speeds up the process of harvesting ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A new type of prototype water harvester promises to be simpler and more efficient than traditional variations of the device at pulling drinking water from the air, a new study ...