On a hot August day, CU Boulder climatologist Peter Blanken and Ph.D. student Holly Roth cleaned a $50,000 weather station at the edge of Standley Lake to measure a phenomenon even grade schoolers ...

Seeing two lines on a pregnancy test doesn’t necessarily mean you’re pregnant. The second line may be an evaporation line. This line can appear in the results window of a pregnancy test as the urine ...

Leaning over the edge of a reservoir the size of two football fields, a farm technician swings an upturned gallon bottle wildly from side to side, tipping out its clear contents. “Do you like my ...

The warmer than average winter has led to limited ice cover on the Great Lakes as of January 27, 2020. Evaporation can be higher when ice cover is lacking, but it’s not a certainty. Evaporation is the ...

Dry eye disease (DED) is a common condition in which tear film abnormalities result in a damaging cycle of tear hyperosmolarity, desiccating stress, inflammation, and ocular surface injury. In a ...

Temperatures on our planet are rising. This much is blatantly apparent, with 2024 the hottest on record, and an average of ...

You know water evaporates - that's when it turns from a liquid to a gas. You probably also know that a hot pot of water will cool off in part because of evaporation. However, did you know that a cup ...

Much of the Colorado River’s water is diverted from reservoirs and transported in canals to the farmlands and cities of the desert Southwest. But some of the water also ends up going elsewhere — ...

New theoretical research by Michael Wondrak, Walter van Suijlekom and Heino Falcke of Radboud University has shown that Stephen Hawking was right about black holes, although not completely. Due to ...

Evaporation is an endothermic process undertaken by all liquids. This physical state change occurs when surface molecules gain sufficient kinetic energy to overcome the enthalpy of vaporization. Such ...