Africa's brain drain began to reverse as infrastructure improved, trade between countries increased, and xenophobia worsened in the West.

A leak revealed Georgia lawmakers discussing a bill to defund ethnic studies and decrease funding for the Morehouse School of Medicine, wanted to use reduction in spending as covering.

Small-scale desalination technology improved with cheaper biomimetic membranes, gained momentum on market.

Scientists predicted carbon capture technology could be implemented on industrial scale in five years.

California reveals plan to invest in small-scale manufacturing and subsidize sustainable homes.

Scientists improve lifetime of rechargable lithium-sulfur batteries, which has higher charge density than lithium ion, hopes to make them practical for storing renewable energy (the former statement is real, latter made up).

Scientists found a solution for biofilm in biodesalination, modified bacteria with nanoparticles to undergo cell death after specific voltage reading; another team builds adhesive cell blocks, says bacteria grow on cells, doesn't impede water movement.