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In a leap toward sustainable desalination, researchers have created a solar-powered sponge-like aerogel that turns seawater into drinkable water using just sunlight and a plastic cover. Unlike ...

Could this innovation provide a solution to one of our era’s biggest scourges? Carmen Martínez Torrón/Getty Images Sponges. Is there anything they can’t do? For millennia, humans have used dried ...