Researcher Found Martian Meteorites Carries Ancient Water

Medicine & Technology Mar 06, 2017

Mars meteorite dating from about 4.5 billion years ago, an ancient ocean there would have covered 19 percent of the planet's surface.Martian meteorites may provide clues to ancient abundance of water

NASA’s SnowEx Completes First Test Flights

Feb 23, 2017

NASA research about snow has started. The aircraft SnowEx has completed its first test flights.

Kenyan Man Turns 'Elephant Guardian': Provides Water To The Drought-Ridden Wild Life

Feb 22, 2017

Daily a man from Kenya drives a water-tanker for miles and provides the wild animals with drinking water

Seagrass Significantly Reduce Bacterial Exposure In Water For Every Creature On Earth

Feb 19, 2017

"Millions of people are relying on healthy coral reefs for food, income, and cultural value." She pertains to the benefits of having bacterial-less coral reefs in order to maintain an abundance with people's lives.

Man-Made Wastes Reaches 7 Miles Deep To Mariana Trench

Feb 14, 2017

Scientists from England have discovered a shocking truth. they have found that Mariana Trench, deepest part of the ocean is heavily polluted.

Drink water only when you're thirsty, experts say

Jul 02, 2015

Drinking water, particularly when you are doing extreme physical activities, could kill you!

A Wintry Affair—How Oregon's Lost Lake Disappears

May 06, 2015

The volcanic roots of Oregon's Mount Hood National Forest become evident each year when the mysterious Lost Lake vanishes. Near the Hoodoo Ski Area, the water of Lost Lake escapes through a hole on the north shore like water down a drain.

Life Underneath Antarctica May One Day Reveal Life On Colder Planets

Apr 28, 2015

Though it may be hard to imagine life abounding in the frigid tundra that is Earth’s Antarctica, that doesn’t mean that life cannot exist there. Recent studies looking into the develop and sustainability of life in the frozen wasteland has developed promising results in showing that life may too exist on other exoplanets or exomoons further out in space that may share a similarly cold surface. But in a new study published this week in the journal Nature Communications, researchers with the University of Tennessee Knoxville have discovered a series of underground lakes that could harbor life—pointing ever-more towards the possibility of life far off from what humans can withstand.

Curiosity Finds Compelling Evidence of Liquid Water Near Martian Surface

Apr 13, 2015

NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars has detected perchlorate compounds that are able to lower the freezing point of water, allowing it to remain in liquid form near the surface. Based on the data collected from the rover, researchers believe that liquid salt water may actually exist close to the surface.

Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria—Could Swimming This Spring Break Land You In the Hospital?

Mar 30, 2015

Using coastal waters can often be quite a finicky endeavor. Working your plans around algal blooms, red tides and even the occasional sewage mishap, can often be a pretty unpleasant mess. But it turns out that swimmers and surfers may have more to fear than getting a little dirty at the beach. Aside from Giardia, a parasite that is often passed in coastal waters, it turns out that recreational swimmers at local beaches may also be at a significantly higher risk of transmitting deadly antibiotic resistant bacteria—landing them in the hospital or worse.

‘Water Man of India’ Takes Prize for Bringing Hope to A Dry Future

Mar 21, 2015

While the Nobel Peace Prize may applaud many great acts of human kindness and perseverance, not every year’s winners are designated as those that feed the masses or even bring essential components of life, such as water, to those in need. In order to applaud these efforts, the Stockholm Water Prize was created as the unofficial “Nobel Prize for water”, and each year it recognizes those fighting in the most impoverished nations for potable water to be brought to masses. This year’s laureate, however, is one for the record books as he alone has brought water to 1,000 villages across northern India.

Mars Once Had More Water Than the Arctic Ocean

Mar 06, 2015

Scientists believe that the Red planet once had more water on its surface than is found today in Earth's Arctic Ocean. However, over time Mars has lost 87% of this water to space.

Should NASA and The International Space Station Be Worried About the Vapors?

Feb 27, 2015

Should the vapors be cause for concern? Well it certainly has been a question that has crossed NASA and the astronauts’ aboard the International Space Station minds. Since the snafu on Wednesday, Feb. 25, when a routine spacewalk led to water leaking into space station flight engineer Terry Virts’ helmet, the team has been buzzing with news of whether or not they will be cleared to walk again this weekend.

Evidence of Water Flows Found on Vesta

Jan 26, 2015

NASA has revealed that new data from the Dawn spacecraft indicates that there may have once been short-lived water flows on the second largest body in the asteroid belt, known to us as Vesta.

Could Water Have Changed the Face of Mars, or Is the Habitability Question too Much to Bare?

Dec 12, 2014

While some parts of the nation are fighting Winter storms of snow and sleet, eyes this week are o water of the liquid variety. And more specifically, researchers and reporters are looking towards the molecule’s importance in developing life, as well as its origins story too. News this week of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta Mission, revealed a recently published study reporting that the sustenance of our Earth and of all life, water, may in fact have not originated on comets from the Kuiper Belt as once believed. And what’s more, now that researchers have debunked false origin stories of the miracle molecule, they’re now beginning to question whether water alone can make a planet habitable for life, or if there are other mitigating conditions as well.