water

Northeastern students win NASA's Mars Ice Challenge with a robot built to extract water from the Red Planet

For manned Martian missions to be possible, astronauts will need a lot more water than they can carry on a spacecraft. Enter a team of…

Allie Nicodemo June 8, 2018

NASA looks to students to find water on Mars

With NASA planning manned-missions to Mars, and Elon Musk envisioning a large Martian city, the goal of becoming a multi-planetary species feels within reach. The…

Allie Nicodemo December 19, 2017

Architecture professor leads effort to make water visible

Walk down Newbury Street today, and there’s a good chance you’ll come across at least one of 10 Bluetooth-enabled well caps designed to monitor and…

Jason Kornwitz September 15, 2017

3Qs: Why better infrastructure could solve Rio’s water problems

The Olympic sailing competition began on Monday in Rio de Janeiro’s Guanabara Bay, the site of extensive water pollution that officials have warned is a…

Joe O'Connell August 9, 2016

3Qs: Will ‘superbug’ in Rio’s waters harm Olympic athletes?

A new study from a team of Brazilian scientists has found that a drug-resistant bacterium has been growing off two city beaches bordering Guanabara Bay,…

News@Northeastern July 13, 2016

The physics of a snowball

What does it take to make the perfect snowball? Oh, just a little physics. Photo via Thinkstock. If you grew up…

Angela Herring January 2, 2014

Clean water for a Ugandan village

Northeastern’s chapter of Engineers Without Borders will implement a new drinking water system in Bbanda, Uganda this summer, bringing potable water to more than 1,000…

Matt Collette July 5, 2013

Metallic personalities

Image via Thinkstock. Civil and environmental engineering professor Philip Larese-Casanova has had a life-long love affair with metals. In his work…

Angela Herring April 29, 2013

AAAS 2013: Environmental Challenges and Adaptation in Cities

Photo via Thinkstock. “If we want to use research to inspire action by cities and have that research be inspired by…

Angela Herring February 18, 2013

Protect the water

One of the big ideas in healthcare today is preventative medicine. Treat the causes instead of the symptoms, proponents say, and you’ll…

Angela Herring July 5, 2012