For many people living in developed nations, towns and cities take care of ensuring that residents' water is clean and safe.

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to a bumper crop of home-made and commercially manufactured face masks. Almost daily, new ‘improved’ designs appear in the market, or online.

Filtration plays a vital role in ensuring the water we use every day is clean, safe, and enjoyable. Home water sources can contain contaminants that have entered the water either at its source or on ...

Most Americans drink safe tap water, yet personal filtration systems rise due to taste preferences, not health needs.

A multidisciplinary group of engineers and scientists has discovered a new method for water filtration that could have implications for a variety of technologies, such as desalination plants, ...

The sophisticated filtration system of giant manta rays might be the key to ridding the ocean of trash in the future. In a new study, scientists looked at the marine animal's liquid-solid filtration ...

Cities typically draw water from diverse sources, such as rivers, lakes, or reservoirs. Each source presents unique challenges, ranging from pollution concerns to industrial runoff. Pollution, both ...

Creating analytical tools that support the advancement of knowledge can often come about through the integration of existing information and techniques, theoretical and practical, directed toward a ...

Researchers at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, are developing an alternative to nickel-nitrilotriacetic acid (Ni-NTA) to purify recombinant proteins. Because it uses common ...