Watering and fertilizing crops to provide enough food for a changing world is a major challenge in agriculture. Now, scientists at the University of Texas at Austin have developed a “smart soil” that ...

The Water Science and Technology Board (WSTB) was established in 1982 to provide a focal point for studies related to water resources at the National Academies. The board's objective is to improve the ...

Humans are using more water than the Earth can support, with many water sources already damaged beyond repair, the report ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. Adding fluoride to water is considered one of the great public health ...

The world is entering an era of "global water bankruptcy" with rivers, lakes, and aquifers depleting faster than nature can ...

Warren Loeppky has been a pediatric dentist in the Canadian city of Calgary for 20 years. Over the last decade, he says, tooth decay in children he’s seen has become more common, more aggressive and ...

Water, a molecule essential for life, has unusual properties -- known as anomalies -- that define its behavior. However, there are still many enigmas about the molecular mechanisms that would explain ...

NASHUA – Aadi Kulkarni, a senior at Nashua High School South, recently emerged as the New Hampshire winner of this year’s Stockholm Junior Water Prize. Selected for his project, “Economical and Novel ...

That comforting hot cup of tea—or refreshing glass of iced tea on a hot summer day—could help reduce the amount of toxic metals in drinking water, according to a new paper published in the journal ACS ...

Scroll down for a transcription of this episode. We explore water as a resource that not only hydrates, but encourages well being through connecting with all five of the senses. Listen to our guest ...