Fish have been quietly perfecting a way to sift tiny particles from water for millions of years, and engineers are finally catching up. A new generation of fish-inspired filters now promises to strip ...

The trouble with traditional filters is that they can’t do their job without clogging. William & Mary ichthyologist Laurie Sanderson has a patent pending on a new type of filter that is designed to be ...

Microplastic fibers from synthetic clothing have quietly become one of the most pervasive forms of pollution in rivers, oceans, and even agricultural soil. Now a new “fish mouth” filter, modeled on ...