Gizmodo Science Fair: A ‘Window’ That Harvests Drinking Water From Desert Air
An international team of engineers is a winner of the 2025 Gizmodo Science Fair for creating an atmospheric water harvesting device that could improve access to potable water in the most remote, arid regions of the world. The question Can we pull water out of thin air, even in the driest places on Earth? The results Engineers led by Xuanhe Zhao, a professor of mechanical engineering and civil and environmental engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), created an atmosph