The mechanism facilitating the smooth movement of the oceanic lithosphere over the underlying asthenosphere (upper mantle) remains poorly understood. Recently, researchers from Japan investigated the ...

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Dash a few drops of water onto a very hot, sizzling skillet and they’ll levitate, sliding around the pan with wild abandon. Physicists at Virginia Tech have discovered that this can also be achieved ...

A boil water order is now in effect for areas in several towns in southeastern Massachusetts due to the presence of E. coli and total coliform bacteria in the water supply, public health officials ...

This diagram illustrates the domino-effect feedback between urban water management and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). Machine learning models quantify the ...

Decades after a Tanzanian teenager initiated study of the “Mpemba effect,” the effort to confirm or refute it is leading physicists toward new theories about how substances relax to equilibrium. It ...

It sounds like one of the easiest experiments possible: Take two cups of water: one hot, one cold. Place both in a freezer and note which one freezes first. Common sense suggests that the colder water ...