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  • Device Aims to Improve Urine-to-Water Process on Space Station

    Membranes let through water molecules, but an electrostatic charge makes sure that any unwanted ions—including salt—stay behind.

  • Cooling Towers and the Fight Against Harmful Microbes

    A recent deadly outbreak of Legionnaire’s disease focuses attention on cooling towers and their cleanliness.

  • Robotic Hitchhiker Mugged, Vandalized in City of Brotherly Love

    A hitchhiking robot that successfully traveled around Germany, Canada and the Netherlands was destroyed August 1 in Philadelphia, just a few weeks into its U.S. journey.

  • Ship Ballast Water: Filtration Preferable to Disinfection

    Research team recommends using physical processes such as filtration or adsorption to treat ballast water.

  • Zinc Coating of Galvanized Steel Pipes Can Be Source of Lead in Water

    Copper piping of a galvanized steel pipe installed upstream can worsen lead release from the steel's zinc coating.

  • NASA, Northrop Grumman Make Advancements in Soil Moisture Data

    NASA’s Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) observatory has completed its commissioning phase, and is ready to start its three-year science mission.

  • Follow These Steps to Machine Safety

    There are many machines in use today that look safe, but are not because of flaws in their design or implementation. The nightmare scenario is when a safety system fails and results in harm.

  • Tree Seeds May Offer an Effective Way to Treat Water

    Protein kills a range of microbial organisms and purifies water, at least for a short time.

  • ASTM Standard to Test Aspiration Potential of Aerosols

    A new ASTM standard tests the potential of pressurized aerosol product to be inhaled and aspirated by anyone near the spraying. Aspiration can potentially cause lung damage.

  • Federal Court Halts Challenge to EPA Power Plant Rules

    A three-judge panel says the greenhouse gas rules cannot be challenged until they are finalized.

  • ACS Seeks to Improve Academic Laboratory Safety

    Deliverables could include a central incident reporting system and safety education guidelines.

  • Reuse of Waste Water Could Catch on in Dry California

    Historic drought could lead to reuse of waste water for household use.

  • Water Treatment Using Forward Osmosis Process

    Energy savings may be possible, but the low cost of reverse osmosis could be hard to beat.

  • Nanocomposite Antibacterial Coatings Could Reduce Infections

    Coatings may improve the level of hygiene of items such as clothing and sportswear.

  • Researchers Develop Tough Hydrogel Structures with 3D Printing

    Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Duke University and Columbia University have created a way to make tough, but soft and wet, biocompatible materials, called “hydrogels” into complex and intricately patterned shapes.

  • Researchers Find Wastewater May Form Troublesome Antibiotics

    Researchers from the University of North Carolina-Charlotte say that treatments to clean waste water may actually create new antibiotics, further adding to the problem of antibiotic resistance in the environment.

  • Using Standards to Ease Risks Posed by Radioactive Materials

    The International Electrotechnical Commission contributes to the safety of nuclear installations, safe handling and storage of fissile material and fight against nuclear smuggling through the work of its TC 45 committee and its subcommittees.

  • EPA Rolls Back Air Emission Exemptions for Industry

    A U.S Environmental Protection Agency regulation would roll back exemptions that 36 states have offered—some for years—to industrial facilities, allowing them to exceed without penalties or fines emission limits during startup, shutdown and malfunction periods.

  • Study Shows Microbes Could Help Remove Contaminants from Water

    Researchers have found a way to remove organic pollutants from water using microbes.

  • Device Could Diagnose Heart Attacks Inexpensively

    Scientists have developed a new way to diagnose heart attacks—with a simple, thermometer-like device, doctors could diagnose heart attacks using less materials and with a lower cost.

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