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Researchers at NYU Tandon School of Engineering achieved a major breakthrough in Redox Flow Desalination (RFD), an emerging electrochemical technique that can turn seawater into potable drinking water and also store affordable renewable energy.

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Three members of an air ambulance crew died when their helicopter crashed Saturday near Oklahoma City, according to the company that operates the helicopter service.

A team of biomedical engineers and roboticists affiliated with multiple institutions across China has developed a type of small, soft robot that can swim through water and test for contaminants. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, the team notes that the robot can be powered and controlled using radio waves.

The gator was found with its snout poking through the ice and his heart "beating three beats per minute."

A campaign by environmentalists led to his move from a zoo at Mexico's northern border and its extreme weather conditions to a conservation park in central Mexico.

"An astonishing amount of smoke gets inside these facilities," said one researcher who spent the past three wildfire seasons collecting data from monitors installed in long-term care facilities.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis dropped out​ of the race, making the race a showdown between former President Donald Trump and former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley​.

Ellis, a 33-year-old Black man, died facedown with his hands and feet cuffed together behind him in March 2020 in a case that became a touchstone for racial justice demonstrations in the Pacific Northwest.

The Colombian Navy released a video of the seizure, showing an officer cutting open packages and testing the contents in a vial.

Claudia Voight, 73, died in her home Feb. 20, 2023. She was the mother of Heidi Voight, a news anchor and Miss Connecticut 2006.

The side of a mountain in China's Yunnan province cascaded down into a village, burying homes and leaving at least 47 people missing, local officials said.

300,000 people signed a petition calling for the Russian train conductor to lose her job after she threw a cat named Twix off a train.

The FAA is urging airlines to "visually inspect" door plugs on Boeing 737-900ER jets, an older model of aircraft.

The plagiarism accusations first struck Claudine Gay when a right-wing activist published several examples of unattributed text from the Harvard president's academic writings. Though insufficient attribution wasn't the only controversy swirling around Gay—her response to congressional questions about antisemitism on campus played a much bigger role—it was the tipping point that forced her resignation this month.

South Korean entrepreneur Do Kwon's Terraform Labs, whose cryptocurrencies crashed dramatically in 2022, is seeking bankruptcy protection in the United States, according to court documents filed Sunday.

Forty years after igniting a PC revolution, Apple's Mac is stronger than ever and could reach new glory due to AI computing—or be left behind.

Sony "terminated" on Monday the $10-billion merger of its Indian operations with local rival Zee Entertainment that would have created a new streaming giant in the world's most populous nation.

Forty years ago Steve Jobs revolutionized personal computing by launching the Apple Macintosh, the first PC with a user-friendly mouse and graphical interface that helped the machines enter the everyday lives of people for the first time.

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