MIT researchers have found a way to use the mechanical vibrations of sound waves to shake water molecules free from a storage medium. The breakthrough significantly speeds up the process of harvesting ...

The industry’s moonshot goal is to scale up production to 1 billion cubic meters, or 264 billion gallons, of water every year, according to an ASU researcher. Atmospheric water harvesting is stirring ...

The air contains water. We call it humidity. Even in the desert, there is water in the air. Scientists have been working on ways to squeeze water out of the air to produce clean drinking water. They ...

Engineers are closing in on a deceptively simple idea: turning the air around our homes into a steady stream of clean water. Instead of bulky machines or energy hungry stills, the latest approach uses ...

MIT engineers have created an ultrasonic device that rapidly frees water from materials designed to absorb moisture from the air. Instead of waiting hours for heat to evaporate the trapped water, the ...

MIT engineers design an ultrasonic system to “shake” water out of an atmospheric water harvester. The design (two prototypes shown in photo) can recover captured water in minutes rather than hours.

Omar Yaghi thinks crystals with gaps that capture moisture could bring technology from “Dune” to the arid parts of Earth. Omar Yaghi was a quiet child, diligent, unlikely to roughhouse with his nine ...

In a warming, drying world, clean water often feels out of reach. Deserts grow, reservoirs shrink, and wells run salty or dry. Yet every place on Earth, even the hottest dunes, has one quiet resource ...