Estrogen can harm aquatic plants and animals when passed into waterways via human and agricultural waste streams. Researchers have now developed a new way of removing the hormone from water, however, ...

Pouring flecks of rust into water usually makes it dirtier. But researchers have developed special iron oxide nanoparticles called 'smart rust' that actually makes it cleaner. The magnetic ...

(Nanowerk News) Researchers from the University of Georgia are giving new meaning to the phrase "turning rust into gold"—and making the use of gold in research settings and industrial applications far ...

The water in our oceans, lakes and rivers can become polluted with a variety of contaminants, creating a need for a simple and cheap cleaning method. One team of researchers is designing magnetic ...