The Namib desert’s sand can be burningly hot but its air, blowing in off the Atlantic Ocean, is cool. Running generates a wind over the body. We concluded that the heat from the sun and from the ...

Two-thirds of the world's population faces an extreme water shortage at least one month a year. Many of these places are dry, arid deserts with no reliable source of fresh water — other than fog, that ...

The Namib Desert beetle has inspired a new style of ice-resistant aircraft surface. Scientists have studied the water-gathering beetle, and have developed a patterned surface based on the small bumps ...

In the Namib desert—one of the driest places in the world—a tiny species of beetle climbs the dunes, leans its body toward the wind, and catches the only source of water it can: passing droplets of ...

The Namib Desert Beetle lives in one of the hottest places in the world, yet it still collects airborne water. Taking a page from the beetle's playbook, Virginia Tech biomedical engineers created a ...

There is apparently a beetle in Africa’s Namib Desert that saves water droplets on its back from fog, so it will have water to drink later. A researcher at MIT is now trying to use this ingenious ...

A team of researchers is designing novel systems to capture water vapor in the air and turn it into liquid. They have developed sponges or membranes with a large surface area that continually capture ...