California is officially in a drought with many of us now facing water restrictions. So it may interest you to hear the ideas of a Bay Area scientist who wants to recycle the worlds’ dirty water.
This invention isn’t going to magically reverse the drought or give us more water to drink. But it may, at […]

Public fountains are dry in Barcelona, Spain, a city so parched there’s a €9,000 ($13,000) fine if you’re caught watering your flowers. A tanker ship docked there this month carrying 5 million gallons of precious fresh water – and officials are scrambling to line up more such shipments to slake public thirst.
Barcelona is not alone. […]

 
The basic ingredients for life — warmth, water and organic chemicals — are in place on Saturn’s small moon Enceladus, scientists said on Wednesday in detailing the content of huge plumes erupting off its surface.
The scientists described observations made by the Cassini spacecraft when it flew over the surface of Enceladus on March 12 as […]