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Dugan Hayes and Cali Antolini using a technique involving laser pulses fired at intervals on the order of quadrillionths of a second, can investigate chemical reactions driven by light. (Photo by URI Photo/Michael Salerno)
Ensuring that a growing global population has access to clean water will require new water treatment methods. One of these next-generation methods involves ferrate, which creates fewer toxic byproducts than chemicals like chlorine and is potentially cheaper and easier to deploy...