A high-school senior has built a simple water filter using a common tree seed that can effectively remove bacteria such as E. coli and other pollutants. Distributing the easy-to-follow instructions on ...

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Filter feeders are everywhere in the animal world, from tiny crustaceans and certain types of coral and krill, to various molluscs, barnacles, and even massive basking sharks and baleen whales. Now, ...

Engineers fabricated a simple water filter modeled after the mobula ray’s plankton-filtering features. Pictured are pieces of the filter. Filter feeders are everywhere in the animal world, from tiny ...

LifeStraw has become a big name in both the outdoors and emergency preparedness industries for its simple and easy-to-use personal water filters. While you’ve likely seen the brand’s signature filter, ...

Studying the filter-feeding mechanism of mobula rays, engineers developed a new design for industrial cross-flow water filters. Research shows the filter-feeders strike a natural balance between ...

MIT researchers Anette Hosoi and Xinyu Mao began studying filtration at the height of the pandemic when devising better face masks was a top priority. This work has continued in the post-pandemic ...