A radical new kind of desalination technology is finally on the cusp of helping to slake the world’s thirst. The pitch: Put ...

Half of all people on earth experience severe water scarcity at least one month out of the year, according to the UN.

One of the most extreme environmental gradients is the increase of pressure with increasing depth ... on water. Extreme pressure results in tighter packing of the phospholipids, which lowers the ...

In this latest instalment of Future Chronicles, an imagined history of future inventions, we journey to 2035, when undersea ...

The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, or AMOC, is a giant system of ocean currents that shuttles warm surface ...

The Pacific Ocean is the deepest ocean in the world, plunging to depths of around 11,000 metres in the Mariana Trench.

The numbers are tough to wrap our heads around: 139 million square miles of water at an average ... Jupiter's liquid hydrogen ocean to support the thousands of miles of pressure bearing down ...

The bottom of the ocean ... water counterparts. Three-quarters of the lipids in the deep-sea comb jellies were plasmalogens, a type of curved lipid that is rarer in surface animals. In the ...