A device small enough to hold in two hands pulled drinkable water straight out of the punishing dry air of Death Valley National Park using nothing but sunlight, no battery, no plug, and no moving parts.
The 2023 field test, according to a Times of India report, was led by University of California, Berkeley chemist Omar Yaghi, who has since won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, shared with Susumu Kitagawa and Richard Robson, for developing the metal-organic frameworks, or MOFs, that power the technology.
