Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New study shows how sunlight's electric field speeds up water evaporation by breaking off water clusters at the surface. (CREDIT: ...

A small beaker of water can look ordinary. Under the right light, it can also become a quiet factory. In a chemistry lab at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, researchers have shown that ...

In a leap toward sustainable desalination, researchers have created a solar-powered sponge-like aerogel that turns seawater into drinkable water using just sunlight and a plastic cover. Unlike ...

Water has always responded well to sunlight, evaporating faster under the sun than when heated by other energy sources. For years, scientists knew this happened but didn’t fully understand why. Now, a ...