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Civil and environmental engineering graduate student Jess Wilson has been sampling water from the Monongahela River and surrounding streams for the past two years. Pictured above, Wilson collects a sample of water from Redstone Creek to be analyzed for its bromide content, among other various pollutants.

PaDEP asks treatment plants to stop accepting shale-gas wastewater

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection asked all shale-gas drilling operators to stop delivering wastewater to 15 different wastewater treatment plants this week.

The majority of adults receive less than eight hours of sleep every night. The survey above was conducted in April 2009 by Tempur-Pedic. Percentages sum to more than 100 due to rounding of percentages.

Big workloads prompt big questions about students' sleeping habits

With the semester coming to a close and final exams just around the corner, many students may be neglecting sleep even more than usual.

Electronic ink uses innovative technology in high-demand e-readers

These screens are complex to manufacture, as they require very small and durable parts, but the basic principle behind them is fairly simple.

SciTech Briefs

A biologist at the University of Auckland in New Zealand has concluded that human language originated in southern Africa.

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