Tue, 21-Oct-2025

US high schoolers design low-cost filter to remove lead from water

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When the pandemic forced schools to close, Rebecca Bushway, a science teacher in Washington, D.C., set her students an ambitious task: design and build a low-cost lead filter that attaches to faucets and removes the poisonous metal. Using 3D printing and high-school level chemistry, the team now has a working prototype — a three-inch (7.5 … Read more

World’s earliest coin workshop found 

ZHENGZHOU: The world’s oldest coin minting workshop dating back about 2,500 years ago has been uncovered in central China’s Henan Province. Using radiocarbon dating, Chinese archaeologists have confirmed that a bronzeware casting workshop at the ruins of Guanzhuang in Xingyang City, the western part of the provincial capital Zhengzhou, Henan, had begun to mint standardized … Read more