The capacity of soil to regulate the terrestrial freshwater supply is a fundamental ecosystem service. Water percolating through soil is filtered, stored for plant utilization, and redistributed ...

In a new study published in Nature Physics, researchers have achieved the first experimental observation of a fragile-to-strong transition in deeply supercooled water, resolving a scientific puzzle ...

Jump motions are the only slow variable at relatively high temperatures, for example, from ambient to ~250 K. At lower temperatures, however, the displacement of the fourth-nearest oxygen atom of the ...

By 2050, the world’s population will reach around 10 billion, and feeding everyone will be a major challenge. Drylands cover nearly half of the global land ...

Water from the Colorado River Basin is a major water source for residents of the American Southwest, serving nearly 40 million people. In these urban areas, residential usage is one of the major uses ...