Imagine generating power not from sunlight or wind, but from the simple mixing of fresh and salt water. This is the quiet ...

Chemotherapy is known for its painful side-effects. It also has limitations when the cancer has metastasized to the lymph nodes. The lymphatic drug delivery system, where anticancer drugs are injected ...

In order to survive, organisms must control the pressure inside them, from the single-cell level to tissues and organs. Measuring these pressures in living cells and tissues in physiological ...

Japan has launched the world’s second commercial-scale osmotic power plant, advancing a promising new form of 24/7 clean ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) In estuaries, where rivers flow into the sea, enormous free-energy dissipation takes place when fresh river water mixes with salty sea water. The release of Gibbs free energy from ...

THE publication of a paper by Mr. Spens in vol. lxxvii. Proc. Roy. Soc., p. 234, in which he criticises a relation between the vapour and osmotic pressures of a solution which Mr. Hartley and I had ...

The research team at Seoul National University took their inspiration for this hydrogel design from plants. Although some plants’ roots can be tender and soft, even a garden weed can crack concrete as ...

Seed germination is considered the most crucial stage for seedling establishment, and success at this stage is dependent on moisture availability in the soil. An experiment was conducted to evaluate ...

Two un-related announcement have put forward osmosis desalination technology in the limelight. Of the two, one has come from a university spin-off while the other is a private entity the selling point ...