Got a question about survival? Send it to Backpacker. I’ve always heard that hikers should “drink to their thirst,” but how long does it take for the body to absorb water into the system after ...

Climate change is degrading the ability of soils to absorb water, according to a study published in the journal Science Advances. This could have implications for global warming, because water in the ...

Water seepage can cause significant damage, especially if not addressed quickly. Whether the water intrusion is from a flood, frozen pipe, or other event, one of the first steps is deciding what can ...

Q: The plants in my raised bed keep wilting, sometimes just a couple of hours after I have watered. I water until water pools on top and starts to run off the edges of the bed. My neighbor suggested I ...

A new low-cost, sustainable polymer gel film produced by University of Texas researchers may hold the key to aiding water scarcity in two-thirds of the global population. The thin and porous film, ...

The male desert sandgrouse might not be much to look at, but his belly feathers give him the unique ability to absorb and carry water. Researchers have, for the first time, closely examined the ...

There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science ...

Every evening during the summer of 2020, Xingyi Zhou went up to the roof of her lab building at the University of Texas at Austin to check on two plastic boxes containing radish plants. Plants in one ...

Plants may have no muscles, but they can grow upwards against the strain of gravity and their roots can even shift soil and rocks – because their cells can absorb water to form strong structures. Now ...

In the Navajo Nation, sometimes a single spigot on an empty road is the only water source around for hundreds of residents. Others have to drive from their rural homes into towns miles away to buy all ...