When we have winter storms, our roads are kept clear by the hard work of all of the local road crews. They clear the snow with their plows while applying salt to melt the ice on the roads. Without ...

People have been separating salt from water for millennia, harvesting both salt and fresh drinking water from salty seawater. But there are limits to what can be done — sometimes with drastic ...

Sea level rise means fresh groundwater will increasingly become salty. Yat Li explains how his novel 3D-printed desalination ...

Unconventional methods for desalination could create more drinking water, help many industries to deal with problematic brines and increase lithium supplies for batteries. People have been separating ...

Chemists detail a new porous material that is less expensive and more sustainable. For a broad range of industries, separating gases is an important part of both process and product -- from separating ...