Insight: Slavery in Brazil's ethanol sector blights drive for cleaner fuel

When manual laborer Alison Moreira dos Santos moved across Brazil for a job on a sugarcane plantation in the southeastern ...
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STEM Minute | The journey water takes from rain to your faucet

Zookeeper Madison Schoenfeld has the important job of ensuring the water in the penguin pool is the right temperature and is ...

Yes, you do need to clean your water bottle. Here’s why and how

Reusable bottles get grubby no matter what liquid they’re filled with, so it’s important to clean them regularly.

Powering AI Could Soon Use as Much Water as 10 Million Americans

Fortunately, a new study outlines a strategy to significantly curb AI's water consumption and carbon emissions.

Flood protection model reveals public measures can lower individual readiness

Climate change is leading to stronger flood disasters. TU Wien and Joanneum Research have developed a new model that shows ...
Earth.com

Is bottled water safe to drink? Here's what the FDA says after its latest round of testing

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) tested bottled waters for PFAS forever chemicals, randomly selecting them from ...
STAT

Better ways to test AI models for health care, according to one Harvard researcher

Danielle Bittterman on finding vulnerabilities in LLMs to make them safer, in this edition of the AI Prognosis newsletter.
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Sweat-powered Sticker Turns Your Drinking Cup into a Health Sensor

Full study: “ A smart cup for wireless, biofuel-powered, sweat-based vitamin C sensing .” Co-authors of the study include Muhammad Inam Khan*, Ryan Burns*, Akshit Agarwal, Lu Yin, Jongmin Moon, Bumsik ...