A Hawaiian company has developed machines that can extract fresh water directly from the air. According to KHON2 news in Honolulu, two of these machines have been deployed and are now ready to ...

Chemists and engineers find innovative ways to access water—including by pulling it out of thin air. Now, University of Chicago researchers found a way to extract even more water. In 2021, Prof. Laura ...

A team of international researchers discovered a new hydrogel material that can increase water absorption from dry desert air, which could reduce water scarcity in arid regions. With global ...

Around the world, access to clean drinking water is becoming more difficult. Climate change, growing populations, and ongoing ...

Professor Omar Yaghi, a chemist at the University of California, Berkeley and a 2025 Nobel Prize winner, has created a machine capable of generating up to 1,000 liters of clean water everyday from ...

A Nobel Prize-winning chemist has unveiled a solar-powered machine capable of extracting up to 1,000 litres of clean drinking water per day from dry desert air, a breakthrough that could reshape how ...

UC Berkeley researchers have designed an extreme-weather proven, hand-held device that can extract and convert water molecules from the air into drinkable water using only ambient sunlight as its ...

Scientists in Shanghai have developed a unique material that combines the best features of a hydrogen and a sponge. This unique ‘hydrosponge’ can extract water from air in a far more energy-efficient ...