18 months ago, Bravo Ordnance didn't exist. Yesterday, the Pentagon named them a winner of its Drone Dominance Lethality Challenge, giving them a direct pathway to tens of thousands of unit orders as part of a 60,000-drone purchase. From startup to defense contractor in 8 weeks, the US is finally getting the speed the moment demands. Procurement speed is innovation policy. When the DoD can take a startup company from application to tens of thousands of units in 8 weeks, it creates a signal will attract more capital, more founders, and more breakthroughs than any R&D grant ever could. $DRNZ

An 18-year-old just did what billion-dollar water companies couldn't. Meet Mia Heller. A high school junior from Warrenton, Virginia who built a water filter in her garage that strips out 95.5% of microplastics from drinking water. That's better than most government treatment plants, which sit somewhere between 70% and 90%. Her secret weapon? Ferrofluid. A magnetized liquid made of oil and powder that latches onto microplastic particles. Then a magnet yanks them out. No membranes. No constant filter replacements. No endless maintenance bills. The ferrofluid even gets recycled, around 87% of it, in a closed loop. The spark for all of this wasn't a classroom project. It was a local newspaper article warning that her town's tap water was loaded with PFAS and microplastics, and that nobody was coming to fix it. So she watched her mom swap out filter after filter and thought, there has to be a smarter way. She built the prototype herself. Tested it with a homemade turbidity sensor. Then walked into the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair and walked out with a special award from the Patent and Trademark Office Society. Up against nearly 1,700 students from 62 countries. She's now eyeing a household version that sits under your kitchen sink. The future of clean water might not come from a lab in Silicon Valley. It might come from a teenager's garage in Virginia. Source: Smithsonian Magazine

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May 18, 1969: Tom Stafford, John Young, and Gene Cernan begin the second crewed mission to the Moon. Apollo 10 was the final critical test flight before Apollo 11's lunar landing, just 2 months later.