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BYLINE: By Faith Kearns, PhD Newswise — Industries that need ultra-pure water — including semiconductor, battery, pharmaceutical, food and beverage companies — are expanding in Arizona. One of the most overlooked challenges for these businesses is what gets left behind in the pursuit of clean water: brine, the salty byproduct of processes like reverse osmosis….
Newswise — The use of electronics in various forms is on the rise, from wearable devices like smartwatches to implantable devices like body-implanted sensors, skin-worn smart patches, and disposable monitoring devices. These devices, which are inevitably discarded after use, contribute to the growing problem of electronic waste (e-waste), a significant environmental concern. The Korea Institute…
Newswise — CHICAGO—June 25, 2025 —The Globus team, responsible for developing the Globus data management and compute platform, and operated by the University of Chicago, announced that the Globus platform now supports Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Object Storage. Researchers and institutions using OCI Object Storage can now securely and reliably access, share, and automate data…
Newswise — Over the last two decades, the scientific community has made rapid strides in understanding climate change and air pollution—but progress on their combined effects remains limited. Traditional models often gloss over the complex web of interactions between land, sea, and sky, especially when simulating compound events like heatwaves coinciding with stagnant air. These…
BYLINE: Robert C. Jones Jr. Newswise — Its 5,000-mile journey now complete, a massive plume of dust that originated in the Sahara Desert has reached South Florida. The dust, known as the Saharan Air Layer (SAL), blanketed skies over Puerto Rico on its journey east. The plume was expected to spread across Florida and bring…
Newswise — A recent review published in Engineering delves into the complex relationships among food systems, climate change, and air pollution, highlighting the need for sustainable strategies to address these interconnected global challenges. Climate change and air pollution pose significant threats to food systems. Rising temperatures, altered precipitation patterns, and extreme weather events, driven by climate change,…
BYLINE: Robert C. Jones Jr. Newswise — The menacing band of thunderstorms that stretched across the Tennessee Valley was quickly heading south. From a makeshift operations center inside a Des Moines, Iowa, hotel, University of Miami atmospheric sciences doctoral student Cam Pine tracked the severe weather system on his laptop, alerting a team of scientists…
Newswise — Plastic pollution, particularly microplastics, is now ubiquitous in agricultural soils, but their impact extends beyond soil contamination. While their physical effects on soil structure have been documented, their potential to carry antibiotic resistance genes has been largely overlooked. Antibiotics applied through manure or wastewater are known to enter soils, but microplastics exacerbate this…
Newswise — The state of Texas awarded UTHealth Houston School of Public Health $5 million over two years for early detection and research, led by principal investigator Jooyeon Hwang, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, on cancer risk among firefighters in Texas. Repeated exposure to harmful chemicals in fire smoke,…
Newswise — Empa’s new methanation plant, move-MEGA, brings together central components of the energy transition: It produces methane from renewable hydrogen and CO₂, with a deliberate focus on increasing the load flexibility of the process – a crucial advantage for utilizing fluctuating renewable electricity sources. The innovative demonstration plant shows how renewable solar power can…
