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The number of available foster homes in Carson City is so low right now that siblings cannot reside together in emergency foster care, a local panel of child welfare advocates said.

Engineers and chemists at Southwest Research Institute have teamed up to create a low-cost method of harvesting water from atmospheric air on a much larger scale than previously attempted. Supported by $300,000 in internal research funding, the group is using silica gel beads, which are commonly used to keep items from gathering moisture during shipment, to capture water molecules from the air around us.