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Bioelectronics research wins top award at 2024 Regeneron ISEF
Research on bioelectronics, microbe genetics and mathematics earned three teens top awards โ and big prize money โโฏtoday at the…
A protein in sweat may protect people from Lyme disease
Michal Tal studies theย immune system. She works at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. โWhen we talk about risk…
See how hummingbirds sneak through small spaces
Hummingbird wings are amazing. They can flap dozens of times per second. And they can twist in ways that let…
The desert planet in โDuneโ is pretty realistic, scientists say
In March, the filmย Dune: Part Twoย returned sci-fi fans to the desert planet Arrakis. On this harsh, sandy world, human settlers…
Aerodynamics involved in shooting hoops can make vehicles greener
Now, two Massachusetts 18-year-olds have shown how to greatly boost the eco-friendliness of such vehicles. Vishnu Angiras and Misha Mishechkin…
A new test could help weed out AI-generated text
Imagine that youโre helping judge a writing contest at your school. You want to make sure everyone did their own…
Hereโs how predictions of the sunโs corona during the 2024 eclipse fared
For most folks on Earth, the spectacular sight of the sunโs fiery corona can be witnessed only during a total…
Social media harms teensโ mental health, mounting evidence shows. What now?
In January, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebookโs parent company Meta, appeared at a congressional hearing to answer questions about how…
Earthโs largest ape went extinct 100,000 years earlier than once thought
The worldโs largest ape vanished from Earth more thanย 100,000 years earlier than once thought, pushed to extinction as the environment…