New solar-power desalination device leaves no brine - Boing Boing
University of Rochester researchers have built a solar-powered desalination device that doesn't leave behind brine — the concentrated saltwater that conventional plants dump back into the ocean, where it raises salinity and starves sea life of oxygen. The panels are black metal etched with femtosecond lasers, so the surface both absorbs nearly all sunlight and wicks a thin film of water across it, distilling fresh water and shunting the leftover salts to untreated edges instead of letting them clog the works.
South Africa rolls out game-changing HIV shot amid funding shortfalls - NPR
Nurse Mpho Matloane prepares a syringe filled with the drug Lenacapavir which he prepares to administer to Kegoratile Aphane (left) at the Phedisong clinic in Ga-Rankuwa, north-west of Pretoria, on Dec. 2, 2025.
Rare type of Lyme disease found for the first time in New York - NBC News
There’s a new type of Lyme disease in New York state. Almost all cases of the tick-borne illness in the United States are caused by corkscrew-shaped bacteria called Borrelia burgdorferi.
CDC raportează o creștere a bacteriilor rezistente la antibiotice
Un tip comun de infecție gastrointestinală devine tot mai greu de tratat, precizează Centrele pentru Controlul și Prevenirea Bolilor (CDC), adăugându-se astfel pe lista în creștere a infecțiilor care pot rezista mai multor tipuri de antibiotice. Conform unui raport CDC publicat în această lună, bacteriile „extensiv rezistente la medicamente” au cauzat aproximativ 9% din cazurile de shigeloză în 2023, comparativ cu 0% în 2011.