Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: SOURCE Clean, renewable drinking water made straight out of thin air almost sounds too wild to be true. But ...

Around the world, access to clean drinking water is becoming more difficult. Climate change, growing populations, and ongoing ...

In a warming, drying world, clean water often feels out of reach. Deserts grow, reservoirs shrink, and wells run salty or dry. Yet every place on Earth, even the hottest dunes, has one quiet resource ...

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 ...

As the atmospheric water harvesting industry looks to scale up, it faces challenges, opportunities and ethical conundrums.

Researchers developed an atmospheric water harvester so effective it was able to extract moisture from the air in Death Valley—one of the driest places on Earth. Reading time 5 minutes An ...

Omar Yaghi thinks crystals with gaps that capture moisture could bring technology from “Dune” to the arid parts of Earth. Omar Yaghi was a quiet child, diligent, unlikely to roughhouse with his nine ...

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Engineers are closing in on a deceptively simple idea: turning the air around our homes into a steady stream of clean water. Instead of bulky machines or energy hungry stills, the latest approach uses ...