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05/14/2018 / By David Williams

Inspired by nature, new “slippery rough surface” material harvests water out of air

There are many places in the world suffering from water shortages. As such, scientists are constantly looking for ways to alleviate this, trying to come up with possible solutions that can be implemented in the real world today. Now a group of researchers from Penn State and the University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas) have […]

04/28/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Fog harvesting could help alleviate water shortages

As traditional sources of water dry out or grow contaminated with pollution, we’ll need to find new ways to get the water we need. One method is fog harvesting, where you collect moisture from ground-level clouds. A Virginia-based research team has come up with a “fog harp” that collects thrice as much water as earlier fog nets, […]

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