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Texas engineers develop a jacket that pulls fresh drinking water out of thin air

Put it on, collect water, drink it up.

Erik Barnes – 6/30/2026

air pollution, earth prize, teenagers, innovation

Kenyan teens create award-winning, affordable car exhaust filters made with corn cobs and algae

This look familiar?

The drawer problem: Why so many of us can’t let go of our old electronics, and what we can do about it

Many U.S. apartments have individual heating and cooling systems that are less efficient than current technology.

How window‑mounted heat pumps can give tenants efficient heating and cooling

environment, pollution, ocean cleanup, olympics, plastic pollution

Solar-powered boat feasts on trash and could solve the ocean’s plastic waste problem

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A bonobo’s make-believe tea party has scientists rethinking whether imagination belongs only to humans

Billionaire sees ‘useless’ Gobi Desert is the key to bountiful, money-saving clean energy

“This could be the new space of our civilization.”

Erik Barnes – 08/29/25

Billionaire sees ‘useless’ Gobi Desert is the key to bountiful, money-saving clean energy — Lei Zhang believes our future lies in a desolate desert.

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As climate change causes flooding in London, experts found an effective, low-cost solution: beavers

Erik Barnes – 6/3/2026

It’s all too easy – by design – to agree to a privacy policy without checking the voluminous fine print to find out what you’re giving away.

Privacy isn’t dead – it’s just that tech companies have made it inconvenient

Good Partner – 5/27/2026

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Wildlife reserves and gardens alike can be regrown thanks to dogs wearing backpacks with seeds

Erik Barnes – 5/20/2026

water, fog harvesting, water crisis, environment

How the ‘fog harvesting’ women of Morocco are influencing how desert areas get drinking water

Erik Barnes – 5/20/2026

A healthy bat hangs in a cave, resting up to eat its weight in bugs at dusk.

How much is a bat worth? Protecting these tiny insect‑eaters isn’t just good for farms – their deaths cost taxpayers and the wider economy

Good Partner – 5/15/2026

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Which route should you take? The familiar or the unknown?

How does your brain decide between the road not taken or the same old route? Resolving conflicting memories is key to navigation

Good Partner – 5/13/2026

A pocket garden at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center in New Jersey.

Pocket gardens: The tiny urban oases with surprisingly big benefits

Good Partner – 5/4/2026

When you hear about some new research finding, consider how it fits into the context of other related studies.

‘A study showed…’ isn’t enough – scientific knowledge builds incrementally as researchers investigate and revisit questions

Good Partner – 5/4/2026