The jacket is inspired by the futuristic "stillsuits" featured in Frank Herbert's science-fiction novel Dune, which recycle ...

A high tech jacket from the University of Texas can pull drinking water from thin air—up to one-and-a-half pints per day.

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 ...

Researchers at UT Austin have developed a wearable textile that pulls moisture from the atmosphere and converts it into ...

A serendipitous observation in a Chemical Engineering lab at Penn Engineering has led to a surprising discovery: a new class of nanostructured materials that can pull water from the air, collect it in ...

*Researchers at the University of Texas have developed a prototype jacket that can collect moisture from the air and convert ...

A team of international researchers discovered a new hydrogel material that can increase water absorption from dry desert air, which could reduce water scarcity in arid regions. With global ...

When the United States military deploys in support of combat operations, one thing that's vitally important is water. Every service member requires several liters of water each day, and it must be ...

A new high-tech jacket pulls drinking water from thin air. The huge advance in fabric technology can collect up to one-and-a-half pints of drinkable water a day, say American scientists. Engineers at ...

There are existing methods to collect water from the ambient air, but most of them are large or cumbersome. Recent research by the University of Texas at Austin is taking that concept and transforming ...

As heatwaves become more frequent across the world, researchers are looking for new ways to keep buildings cool without increasing electricity use. Scientists at the University of Sydney, working with ...

With little more than a coat of paint, buildings could soon make the air around them cooler and harvest gallons of water directly from the atmosphere. Researchers at the University of Sydney in ...