Meet Vick Tan: The Minnesota student who turned a teabag into a low-cost filter that removed more than 90% of arsenic from water |
A small teabag may not seem like much of a solution to polluted drinking water,…
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Brazil’s giant orange juice plant will turn citrus wastewater into biogas to power industrial operations |
A major orange juice processing project in Brazil is taking an unusual approach to one…
Why August can become a hungry month for honeybees, despite summer still being in full swing
August may look like a busy month in a garden, meadow or city park, but…
Nasa’s 2028 Mars mission will send a spacecraft with a nuclear reactor toward Mars and release three small helicopters to explore the planet |
In late 2028, Nasa plans to send something unusual towards Mars, a spacecraft carrying a…
Meet Edward Kang, the 17-year-old New Jersey student who used retinal images to train AI for autism and ADHD screening; his project won a $175,000 science prize
For his project, Kang trained AI models to detect patterns associated with neurodevelopmental disorders from…
Cashew shells once treated as waste are entering the shipping industry, with their residue-based energy tested aboard a commercial vessel |
A pile of discarded cashew shells would normally have little to do with international shipping.…
Nasa maps Moon’s south pole regions where Earth bacteria and fungi could survive for more than a day |
The Moon’s south pole may contain small pockets where some Earth microbes could remain alive…
Some stars repeatedly skim past supermassive black holes, lose material and survive; scientists now think their unusually rapid spin explains why each returning flare becomes progressively dimmer
Representative Image (Canva) Some stars can make repeated close passes around supermassive black holes, losing…
Researchers developed custom 3D-printed replacements for missing sections of ancient pottery and embedded sensors inside them, allowing conservators to monitor temperature, strain and environmental damage
Dr. Savannah Ulalian Bishop photographs an archaeological amphora (Picture: KOC University) Imagine an ancient amphora…
Scientists checked 109 owl nests in Turkey and found live snakes inside 44% of them, with a surprising twist |
A nest box occupied by a Eurasian scops owl might seem an unlikely place to…