Scientists led by China’s Dongguan University of Technology have proposed a novel control approach for water-to-water heat pumps that uses carbon dioxide (CO2) as refrigerant. The model-based optimal ...

The United Nations is holding its first-in-five-decades conference on water in New York, a gathering that some say could be a “Paris moment” — meaning, the global body could soon do for water what ...

Scientists reveal surfaces, not confinement, govern water in nanospace, with changes only appearing when thickness drops below about one nanometer. (Nanowerk News) Researchers at the Max Planck ...

Scientists discovered that certain plants can survive stressful, dry conditions by controlling water loss through their leaves without relying on their usual mechanism -- tiny pores known as 'stomata' ...

From rivers to dams to hundreds of miles of aqueducts, moving water around California takes a massive system, engineered over the better part of a century. Now, with a new executive order, President ...

Steel sheet piles have more than a century-long history of being used to support excavations for buried structures (Figure 1). During the construction process, the sheet piles traditionally provide ...