Salt may be the first mineral that comes to mind when we think about seawater, but in every drop, there are actually dozens of elements and compounds. Calcium, silicon, copper, uranium and even silver ...

Chinese scientists have built a small, stable co-production plant that uses one system to extract hydrogen and fresh water from seawater, while also recovering uranium and bromine and improving ...

AS Jamaicans confront the recurrent threat of drought, worsened by the El Niño weather phenomenon, a renewed proposal to convert seawater into potable supplies has received mixed reactions from ...

Magnesium supplements are gaining popularity to treat conditions such as insomnia, migraines, and constipation. Most magnesium salts are extracted from rocks by crushing and heating them, which ...

“Under the sea, Darling it’s better, Down where it’s wetter, Take it from me!” sang a certain Jamaican crab in The Little Mermaid. Turns out he may have been right after all. Scientists say 0.1% of ...

WASHINGTON, July 14 (Reuters) - Texas-based SuperCritical Materials Corp said on Tuesday it has won an exclusive license from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to extract uranium from seawater, a ...

The seawater battery, developed by Professor Kim Young-sik and his team at Korea’s Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, is a multifunctional system that integrates energy storage, ...

A new model explains how the microscopic hairs carpeting corals coordinate their beating to shape fluid flow. Figure 1: Ciliary flows around corals visualized using tracer-particle path lines. The ...

Imagine a device using an energy source the size of planet Earth, and offering nearly limitless electricity with no ecologically devastating mining required to get it. Science fiction? A lie from Big ...

Reading time: 2 minutes Co-Authors Andreas Haas and Craig Nelson taking water samples at the coast of Mo’orea. An analysis of more than 2,300 seawater samples from more than 20 field studies around ...

You might say PFAS just won’t go away. They’ve been linked to health concerns, including cancer, thyroid disease, liver damage, fertility problems, and immune system disorders, as well as increased ...