The Water Science and Technology Board (WSTB) was established in 1982 to provide a focal point for studies related to water resources at the National Academies. The board's objective is to improve the scientific and technological basis for resolving ...

Microbubbles in the tap water you just poured into a plastic glass are strong enough to create tiny abrasions on the inner layer of the plastic—quietly adding to our growing microplastic problem.

Water, though familiar, still hides astonishing secrets. When squeezed into nanosized channels, it can enter a bizarre “premelting state” that is both solid and liquid at once. Using advanced NMR techniques, Japanese researchers directly observed this ...

Watering and fertilizing crops to provide enough food for a changing world is a major challenge in agriculture. Now, scientists at the University of Texas at Austin have developed a “smart soil” that can keep plants better hydrated and provide a ...

Warren Loeppky has been a pediatric dentist in the Canadian city of Calgary for 20 years. Over the last decade, he says, tooth decay in children he’s seen has become more common, more aggressive and more severe. Many of his young patients have so much ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. Adding fluoride to water is considered one of the great public health achievements of the 20th century. With President ...

The largest office of the U.S. Geological Survey's New England Water Science Center is a modest, single-floor building in Northborough with offices, a warehouse and a lab. It looks like any other building you might find in an office park. But the data ...

While water may not truly feel like concrete, a fall from extreme heights can still cause significant injuries. The resistance from water at high speeds generates a blunt force trauma effect, similar to hitting a rigid surface.

NASHUA – Aadi Kulkarni, a senior at Nashua High School South, recently emerged as the New Hampshire winner of this year’s Stockholm Junior Water Prize. Selected for his project, “Economical and Novel Microplastic Detection Using a Arduino-Based ...

Scroll down for a transcription of this episode. We explore water as a resource that not only hydrates, but encourages well being through connecting with all five of the senses. Listen to our guest experience and share how we can incorporate water into our ...