When some ancient Romans were feeling a little under the weather, they were treated with human feces. While this practice was ...

Desalination of seawater and sewage treatment plants leave behind water that contains high concentrations of salt, metals and ...

A large share of medicines developed today may never reach patients for a surprisingly simple reason: they cannot dissolve well enough in water. For most treatments, the oral route remains the gold ...

1 Department of Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States 2 Department of Animal Sciences and Industry, College of ...

The Mountain Pass Rare Earth Mine & Processing Facility in the United States in 2022 Credit: photo by Tmy350 / CC BY-SA 4.0 Rare earth elements are a key ingredient in electric vehicle batteries, ...

"So, for example, lithium is used for batteries, and lithium extraction can occur from brine, and our method could be used in the future to enhance this process." ANU research fellow and study ...

At Flinders University, scientists have cracked a cleaner and greener way to extract gold—not just from ore, but also from our mounting piles of e-waste. By using a compound normally found in pool ...

Google published a research paper describing how it extracts “services offered” information from local business sites to add it to business profiles in Google Maps and Search. The algorithm describes ...

Chinese researchers have developed an extremely energy efficient and low-cost technology for extracting uranium from seawater, a potential boon to the country’s nuclear power ambitions. China ...