News tagged with purifying water

Banana peels get a second life as water purifier

To the surprisingly inventive uses for banana peels — which include polishing silverware, leather shoes, and the leaves of house plants — scientists have added purification of drinking water contaminated with potentially ...

Chemistry / Other

created Mar 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Japan touts pedal-powered water purifier

A Japanese company is gearing up for large-scale production in Bangladesh of a bicycle that can also be used to purify water at disaster zones or remote villages.

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 4

India's Tata launches low-cost water filter for rural poor

India's giant Tata Group on Monday unveiled a new low-cost water purifier, hoping to do for health what it did for motoring and provide affordable, safe drinking water for millions and cut disease.

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Tropical Singapore an oasis for water research

Khoo Teng Chye, the amiable chief of Singapore's water agency, says he has been sleeping soundly since taking office five years ago.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 21, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0




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Fresh city tomatoes, any time

Why not produce lettuce, beans and tomatoes where most of the consumers are to be found: in the city? The flat roofs of many buildings are well-suited for growing vegetables. Rooftop greenhouses can also make ...

Biology / Other

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Looks like we’re still looking for earthly life forms on other planets

In late 2010, NASA set the Internet buzzing when it called a press conference to discuss an astrobiological finding that would impact the search for extraterrestrial life. Many speculated that some primitive ...

Biology / Other

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Compounds in mate tea induce death in colon cancer cells

Could preventing colon cancer be as simple as developing a taste for yerba mate tea? In a recent University of Illinois study, scientists showed that human colon cancer cells die when they are exposed to the approximate number ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

'Miracle tree' substance produces clean drinking water inexpensively and sustainably

A natural substance obtained from seeds of the "miracle tree" could purify and clarify water inexpensively and sustainably in the developing world, where more than 1 billion people lack access to clean drinking ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Researchers working on watershed moment in water purification

(PhysOrg.com) -- Polluted streams, rivers, lakes and municipal water may soon be getting the Wright State treatment.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Implanted biofuel cell converts bug's chemistry into electricity: Scientists take step toward cyborgs

An insect's internal chemicals can be converted to electricity, potentially providing power for sensors, recording devices or to control the bug, a group of researchers at Case Western Reserve University report.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (23) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Film coatings made from whey

Convenience foods are growing in popularity, and the food they contain is usually protected by films based on petrochemicals. Now researchers have not only developed a biomaterial from whey protein, they have ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

HIV prevention research named scientific breakthrough of the year by Science

The HIV Prevention Trials Network 052 study, led by Myron S. Cohen, MD of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been named the 2011 Breakthrough of the Year by the journal Science.

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Lead levels in drinking water spike when copper and lead pipes joined

Lead pipes once used routinely in municipal water distribution systems are a well-recognized source of dangerous lead contamination, but new research from Washington University in St. Louis suggests that the ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

How to stop the flu: Researchers identify proven strategies to prevent influenza from spreading

(Medical Xpress) -- Between 1918 and 1920, an influenza epidemic swept across the globe, infecting more than a quarter of the world’s population and killing 50 to 100 million people.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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