Millions of people around the world lack access to clean potable water, a problem that is only getting worse with rising temperatures and a growing population. Yet, the atmosphere contains six times ...

MIT researchers have found a way to use the mechanical vibrations of sound waves to shake water molecules free from a storage medium. The breakthrough significantly speeds up the process of harvesting ...

The desert doesn’t look like it has anything to give. Then night falls, the air cools, and a quiet trickle of water begins to gather. That is the basic promise behind a new hand-held atmospheric water ...

A serendipitous observation has led to a surprising discovery: a new class of nanostructured materials that can pull water from the air, collect it in pores and release it onto surfaces without the ...

The arid desert landscape of Death Valley is not the obvious place to find water. Yet it’s here, in one of the planet’s hottest and driest places, that Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers ...

DEATH VALLEY, Calif. — The arid desert landscape of Death Valley is not the obvious place to find water. Yet it's here, in one of the planet's hottest and driest places, that Massachusetts Institute ...

MIT engineers have created an ultrasonic device that rapidly frees water from materials designed to absorb moisture from the air. Instead of waiting hours for heat to evaporate the trapped water, the ...

The industry’s moonshot goal is to scale up production to 1 billion cubic meters, or 264 billion gallons, of water every year, according to an ASU researcher. Atmospheric water harvesting is stirring ...

Omar Yaghi thinks crystals with gaps that capture moisture could bring technology from “Dune” to the arid parts of Earth. Omar Yaghi was a quiet child, diligent, unlikely to roughhouse with his nine ...