The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to a bumper crop of home-made and commercially manufactured face masks. Almost daily, new ‘improved’ designs appear in the market, or online.

Creating analytical tools that support the advancement of knowledge can often come about through the integration of existing information and techniques, theoretical and practical, directed toward a ...

A multidisciplinary group of engineers and scientists has discovered a new method for water filtration that could have implications for a variety of technologies, such as desalination plants, ...

The sophisticated filtration system of giant manta rays might be the key to ridding the ocean of trash in the future. In a new study, scientists looked at the marine animal's liquid-solid filtration ...

Dead phone batteries during emergencies are dangerous, but toxic chemicals in your drinking water? That’s a whole different level of nightmare fuel. Rice University researchers just unveiled a ...

The antibodies used in diagnostic techniques are often generated in vivo, when an animal is injected with a specific antigen from another species. The animal's immune system responds by producing ...