Alumnus Jonathan Trent is a marine biologist and former NASA scientist whose groundbreaking work spans ocean research, space science, and sustainable technology.

Imagine if a plant in a farmer's field could warn a grower that it needs water? Or if a farmer could signal to plants that ...

Arnold Mathijssen, a physicist at the University of Pennsylvania, is partial to pour-over coffee, which involves manually pouring hot water over ground beans and filtering it into a pot or mug below.

One of the largest crocodilians that ever lived preyed on dinosaurs. New research has found the fearsome Deinosuchus had a ...

As part of The World's ongoing series The Big Fix, Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Susanna Lidström, a researcher at the KTH ...

Drought and climate change are impacting water supplies around the world. But desalination — pulling fresh, drinkable water ...

For more than 50 years, the Columbia Environmental Research Center has produced research about contaminants and their effects ...

Scientists discover hydrogen in a rare meteorite, suggesting Earth had the ingredients to make water from the start.

Beneath the surface of the Southern Ocean, vast volumes of cold, dense water plunge off the Antarctic continental shelf, cascading down underwater cliffs to the ocean floor thousands of meters below.

Rising global temperatures are driving the sharp decline in terrestrial water storage. This trend isn’t likely to change, scientists say.

Scientists speculate that asteroids colliding with Earth delivered water—an essential building block of life—but new research ...

A graduate student accidentally created a blend of oil, water and nickel particles that formed an unexpected shape.