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New Solar System Turns Seawater Into Fresh Water — and Skips the Toxic Brine

University of Rochester engineers built a sunlight-driven desalination rig that produces drinking water and harvests minerals without dumping salty waste back into the ocean.

Technology

A Stamp-Sized Sensor Could Make Every Flight Through Winter Safer

University of Surrey engineers have built a 3-cm sensor that warns pilots the moment ice starts forming on a wing — a problem that has eluded reliable, lightweight detection for decades.

Human Achievements

Cambridge Student Spins Fidget Toy on One Finger for 30 Minutes, Sets World Record

Engineering student James Goh used aerodynamics and tribology to build a custom "pulsar fidget spinner" and held it on his finger for 30:34.54 — beating the previous Guinness record by nearly five minutes.

Technology

Germany Just Turned Its Old Coal Mines Into Europe's Biggest Lake Landscape

After 60 years of flooding, the final lake in Germany's 14,000-hectare Lusatian Lakeland opens for swimming this month — turning brown-coal craters into a watery network nearly the size of Lake Como.