Water is everywhere, seriously, making up more than 70 percent of the planet's surface. And you can't survive without it. To keep up with all things H2O, check out the most interesting discoveries related to water, from the stuff you drink, to the droplets that make up the planet's oceans, to water itself in all its glorious strangeness.
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Water shortages could prevent the US from mining more lithium, deepening reliance on foreign importsMost proposed lithium mines in the U.S. overlap with drought-prone regions — including in Nevada, Arizona and California — and there may not be enough water to support them.
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Water might secretly be a mix of 2 different liquids, scientists sayFor decades, scientists suspected water secretly behaves like two different liquids. A new AI-powered study has finally caught it happening at the molecular level.
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'Is it really necessary to generate another image?': UN scientist explains how everyday people can limit AI's environmental impactInterview Live Science spoke with Kaveh Madani, the lead investigator of a United Nations report examining AI's environmental footprint, about this technology's staggering energy use and what users can do to limit their impact.
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Has all the water on Earth been peed before?Life's Little Mysteries Water, water, everywhere … has all of it been peed out at least once?
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Chinese chemists test 'self-cleaning' fabric coating that can remove stains without laundry detergentMaterial scientists in China have created a new kind of coating that keeps clothes clean without the need for wasteful detergents. It could reduce the water and electricity costs of doing laundry by 80%.
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Mangroves clean up $8.7 billion of nitrogen pollution every year, study findsNew research suggests mangroves remove 960,000 tons per year of nitrogen from global water systems, a figure that could rise to more than 5.5 million tons annually if conditions were optimal for the plants.
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'A completely new reality': Bolder measures are needed to prevent extreme water shortages in cities like Phoenix and Las Vegas that depend on the Colorado RiverCities fed by the Colorado River have taken huge steps to reduce their water consumption over the past few decades, yet water shortages are projected to grow more intense. What can be done?
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Florida is facing its most intense drought in 15 years. Here's how it got so bad and how long it will last.More than 70% of the state is under "extreme" to "exceptional" drought conditions, and other parts of the U.S. Southeast are similarly affected. But why, and what are the impacts?
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'In every continent where humans are present, water bankruptcy is manifesting itself': Exiled Iranian scientist Kaveh Madani on our desperate need to preserve our most precious resourceLive Science spoke with Kaveh Madani, director of the UN University Institute for Water, Environment and Health and recipient of the 2026 Stockholm Water Prize, about "water bankruptcy" and what countries should do to avoid catastrophe.
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