Wastewater treatment operator Steve Meadows takes a sample of wastewater to filter through a quarter-sized paper filter to check for traces of COVID-19 in Astoria's waste. Every Thursday, a public ...

It can be difficult to determine if a business is illegally releasing toxic substances into the sewer. A new sensor system is designed to find out, however, by sampling and analyzing water within the ...

PROVINCETOWN — As the country inches closer to the one-year mark of living with COVID-19, clues to when the threat will end sit in the town's waste streams. Provincetown is the only town on Cape Cod ...

People worry about robots taking away our jobs, but the truth is that there are some jobs we should be pretty darn glad machines are ready and willing to perform on our behalf. One such task? Finding ...

During four days in mid-July someone – maybe one visitor or two – used the toilet in their vacation rental or motel room in the small Oregon coast community of Yachats. They carried the coronavirus.

While high school graduates in Oslo, Norway, partied hard for two weeks last spring during the so-called Russ graduation festivities, levels of the drug ecstasy spiked about 10-fold in the city’s ...

Soon enough, robots may wander permanently in our sewers, just below our homes and neighbourhoods, analyzing our diets and our health as they suck up what we flush down. It's already started under the ...