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If you’ve ever struggled with a clogged-up water filter, the advantages of water purification tablets are self-evident. Just drop in a tab, let it do its thing for 30 minutes, and your water is ready ...

Nanocellulose is a renewable nanomaterial made from plant fibers, with unique properties including lightness, very high ...

Dr. Norma Alcantar was inducted into the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame in part due to her work with cactus pads and the ...

In a highly unexpected approach to renewable energy, researchers in Korea have developed a low-cost, easily-manufactured advanced membrane that actually generates electricity as it turns wastewater, ...

When it comes to making questionable water sources potable, the best water purification tablets are a handy and reliable way to kill potentially dangerous microorganisms in water and therefore make it ...

If you leave a clear bottle of water in the sunlight, the ultraviolet rays will kill any harmful microbes in that water, making it drinkable … but it has to sit in the sun for at least six hours. A ...

Preppers can argue until the zombies come home about the best ways to survive the apocalypse, but there’s one thing on which everyone both in and out of the bush can agree: In the event of a natural ...