Oil companies wrestling with huge amounts of wastewater have bold plans to turn the nuisance into a valuable product.

More information: Lixue Shi et al, Water structure and electric fields at the interface of oil droplets, Nature (2025). DOI: ...

Using spill-treating agents to clean up oil spills does not significantly hinder naturally occurring oil biodegradation, ...

A Petri dish containing transparent droplet emulsions made from a mixture of oils of different density and water-based surfactants ... with white light the oil droplets reflect different colors ...

The researchers used a robot based on a simple 3-D printing platform that created oil droplets at random from combinations of four different chemicals—1-octanol, diethyl phthalate, 1-pentanol, and ...

A student playing around with fluids and magnetic materials in the lab may have accidentally found an "exception" to the laws ...

Their experiments have been able to generate power from water droplets falling through a tube. They say this could be a model for harnessing larger amounts of electricity from falling rain in the ...