Understanding the hydration kinetics and water absorption in grains is fundamental to optimizing food processing, storage, and nutritional quality. This process involves the uptake and distribution of ...

Contrary to common belief, the greenhouse effect may have more to do with water in our atmosphere than gases such as carbon dioxide Extreme variations in local weather and the seasons make it easy for ...

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 ...

In hotter weather, the risk of dehydration is greater. But is water always the first thing you should be reaching for? Water makes up more than half of our body weight. To sustain this amount of water ...

Dynamic vapor sorption, also known as DVS, determines the amount and rate of absorption of a solvent, by a sample. This gravimetric technique measures the change in mass by altering the concentration ...