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“It was impossible to feel oneself an exceptional stranger in a place where there were so many strangers. It was a city of immigrants; everybody was in some sense displaced. But everybody was also in a sense enthusiastic, full of enterprise, full of a wonderful gayety, a feeling of opportunity, freedom, liberation from old ties.” Literature laureate Saul Bellow spoke of growing up in his home town of Chicago, Illinois, USA. Born on this day in 1915, Bellow is considered one of the innovators of the American novel. He based his books on people in their environment. And every now and then, Chicago served as a backdrop for his stories. Saul Bellow was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 50 years ago "for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work.” Learn more about his childhood in 1920s Chicago by watching our short documentary: https://t.co/6tgVXncm4w

NobelPrize's tweet photo. “It was impossible to feel oneself an exceptional stranger in a place where there were so many strangers. It was a city of immigrants; everybody was in some sense displaced. But everybody was also in a sense enthusiastic, full of enterprise, full of a wonderful gayety, a feeling of opportunity, freedom, liberation from old ties.”

Literature laureate Saul Bellow spoke of growing up in his home town of Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Born on this day in 1915, Bellow is considered one of the innovators of the American novel. He based his books on people in their environment. And every now and then, Chicago served as a backdrop for his stories.

Saul Bellow was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 50 years ago "for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work.”

Learn more about his childhood in 1920s Chicago by watching our short documentary: https://t.co/6tgVXncm4w

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Professor Omar Yaghi, a chemist at the University of California, Berkeley and winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, has developed an innovative atmospheric water generator capable of producing up to 1,000 liters of clean drinking water per day directly from dry air. Using reticular chemistry and advanced metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), the system efficiently captures moisture even in arid desert conditions with very low humidity. The compact, shipping-container-sized units developed by Yaghi’s company, Atoco, operate entirely off-grid using only ultra-low-grade ambient thermal energy or sunlight, requiring no electricity from the grid. This sustainable technology offers a promising alternative to energy-intensive desalination plants, which often harm marine ecosystems through brine discharge. It is particularly valuable for remote communities, drought-prone regions, and areas affected by natural disasters such as hurricanes in the Caribbean, where centralized water infrastructure may fail. Yaghi’s personal experience growing up with water scarcity in a refugee community in Jordan has deeply influenced his work. He advocates for scaling decentralized, resilient solutions to address the global water crisis through scientific innovation. [Atoco official website and related coverage in Interesting Engineering, Food & Wine, and Nobel Prize announcements (2025–2026)]

Rainmaker1973's tweet photo. Professor Omar Yaghi, a chemist at the University of California, Berkeley and winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, has developed an innovative atmospheric water generator capable of producing up to 1,000 liters of clean drinking water per day directly from dry air.

Using reticular chemistry and advanced metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), the system efficiently captures moisture even in arid desert conditions with very low humidity. The compact, shipping-container-sized units developed by Yaghi’s company, Atoco, operate entirely off-grid using only ultra-low-grade ambient thermal energy or sunlight, requiring no electricity from the grid.

This sustainable technology offers a promising alternative to energy-intensive desalination plants, which often harm marine ecosystems through brine discharge. It is particularly valuable for remote communities, drought-prone regions, and areas affected by natural disasters such as hurricanes in the Caribbean, where centralized water infrastructure may fail.

Yaghi’s personal experience growing up with water scarcity in a refugee community in Jordan has deeply influenced his work. He advocates for scaling decentralized, resilient solutions to address the global water crisis through scientific innovation.

[Atoco official website and related coverage in Interesting Engineering, Food & Wine, and Nobel Prize announcements (2025–2026)]

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