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Frozen water droplets take on a whole new shape when they freeze: Instead of staying round, they form a pointy tip, and eventually sprout a tiny forest of ice crystals on their surface.

Astrobotic Technology, a Carnegie Mellon University spinoff company, has created a full-size prototype of Polaris, a robot designed to search for ice at the moon's poles

Handed an assignment to design a water bottle for the human race if it were on the brink of extinction, Japanese design studio Takram instead did something else: planned a set of robotic "organs" that could keep people alive on 32 milliliters of water a day.

An oxygen droplet floating on its vapor (approaching from left at 12 centimeters per second) can be deflected by a small magnet (moving from bottom center at 7 centimeters per second) held beneath a sheet of glass.

Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) a key molecule for both astronomers and chemists has been discovered close to the star Rho Ophiuchi, about 400 light-years away.

Water seeping into rocky formations on Mars could create places where life could thrive.

Particles from the Sun may be responsible for the presence of water recently detected in lunar soil, a new study has found.

Researchers at the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory borrowed some code from the designers who made this incredible wind map to create the world's first beautiful water current map. The image above is just a snapshot--check out the animated one here. Totally mesmerizing.

The Japanese design studio Takram was asked to design a water bottle for people to use after a hypothetical future environmental disaster.

Drinking water has always been the healthy alternative to carbonated sodas or juices full of sugar but it may be more than a better beverage alternative. Water may affect what foods you choose to eat.

If you were to take all of the water on Earth — all of the fresh water, sea water, ground water, water vapor and water inside our bodies — take all of it and somehow collect it into a single, giant sphere of liquid, how big do you think it would be?

ESA’s Mars Express has returned images of a region on the Red Planet that appears to have been sculpted in part by flowing liquid. This again adds to the growing evidence that Mars had large volumes of water on its surface in the distant past.

This visualization reveals the freshwater stores that NASA’s GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) satellite detects from space and shows how that data can be used to evaluate groundwater gains and losses, critical information in the effort to conserve the water that people depend upon

A GOOD Transparency....

Climate models reveal the red planet was mostly cold and dry.