Bas Mettes astounded the community with his 12th Houdini test.

One class at Indiana University Indianapolis is doing its part to help out.
“What that large switch does is it just allows the child to activate it either with a whole hand or even a light touch,” Tiffany Stead, Occupational Therapist and Adjunct professor at IUI, said.
Each student rewired the traditional toy and added a larger 3D-printed button.
For the first time in about 130 years, Tulare Lake reappeared in California’s San Joaquin Valley, stirring both wonder and concern among locals and experts alike as it submerged almost 100,000 acres of privately owned farmland.
Vivian Underhill, a researcher formerly at Northeastern University, has been studying this unexpected phenomenon.
“Tulare Lake was the largest body of fresh water west of the Mississippi River. It’s really difficult to imagine that now,” she says.
A team of engineers and environmental scientists from Mälardalen University, in Sweden, Southwest Jiaotong University, in China and Guizhou University, also in China, has developed a balloon system for producing and delivering electricity to the ground below. Their work is published in the journal Energy.