If you leave a clear bottle of water in the sunlight, the ultraviolet rays will kill any harmful microbes in that water, making it drinkable … but it has to sit in the sun for at least six hours. A ...

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(Nanowerk News) At least 2 billion people worldwide routinely drink water contaminated with disease-causing microbes. Now, scientists at Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory ...

When plastic waste breaks down into the smallest fragments, less than 1 micrometer wide—or 1,000 times finer than human hair—it can’t be detected at wastewater treatment plants. But researchers have ...

“We don’t need any energy input, and it bubbles hydrogen like crazy. I’ve never seen anything like it,” said UCSC Professor Scott Oliver, describing a new aluminum-gallium nanoparticle powder that ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — The City of Bloomington ...