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Because salt molecules dissolve in water, the charged ions that make up the salt molecules break apart, taking up heat from the water.

Source: Teens Win 2025 Earth Prize for Refrigerator That Runs on Salt – 200 are Headed to Hospitals to Preserve Medicine

Very cool. (No pun intended.)

When Mitchell O’Brien and Breanne Sika set off to spend a day on a Lake Michigan beach hunting for rocks, neither expected one of them would fall victim to quicksand, nor that they would be calling each other boyfriend and girlfriend by the end of the day.

Source: Man gets trapped in Lake Michigan quicksand, emerges with a girlfriend

Bonus points for the headline.

A bomb-sniffing dog is heading to blissful retirement at the home of the Air Force sergeant he bonded with before they were separated for years.

Source: Sergeant reunites with military dog retiring from active duty. Watch the emotional moment

Touching.

What started as a high school project and a less-than-perfect grade has turned into a fiery success story for 19-year-old Drew Davis. Crippling Hot Sauce.

Source: ‘He Said It Was Unrealistic’: Teen With Cerebral Palsy Turns School Project Into Hot Sauce Empire\

So cool … er … hot!

Architects in The Netherlands won a competition to transform the St. Francis of Assisi Church in Heerlen—into a public swimming pool.

Source: Extraordinary Reuse of Vacant Church: Transforming into a Public Swimming Pool in the Netherlands

I love this idea.

Eileen Reilly and a friend started the Women’s Lunch Place day shelter in Back Bay more than 40 years ago. After a long career, she came back to the shelter as a psychiatrist to provide mental health care to women who are unhoused.

Source: She founded a Boston day shelter for women, then became a doctor. Decades later, she’s back to help

Inspirational.

The rancher traced the boy’s steps and discovered that Buford, an Anatolian Pyrenees who normally patrols his land and wards off coyotes, had escorted the 2-year-old for at least a mile.

Source: Missing toddler who walked 7 miles alone through Arizona wilderness led to safety by rancher’s dog

Good dog!

It is the fourth calf born to the southern resident orcas since December. Two of the four have died already.

Source: Another baby orca spotted with Northwest’s endangered J Pod

We appreciate our Orcas around here.

A Philadelphia police officer sets his own fears aside and put his heroism front and center to save a young boy in danger.

Source: Philadelphia police officer sets aside fear of heights to rescue child from a roof

Yikes!

Researchers behind test using biomarkers say it could ‘revolutionise’ early diagnosis of disease

Source: Blood test could detect Parkinson’s disease before symptoms emerge

Encouraging.