Last month, Maya Hammoud spoke at the Concordia Annual Summit in New York, held alongside the United Nations General ...

The Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Finals Week (Thermo Fisher JIC) is underway in Washington, D.C.

The Science News Learning Ambassadors are educators from across the country who have been inspiring their middle and high ...

Whether it’s at the kitchen table or in the living room, middle schoolers show they don’t need a sophisticated ...

Lilly tested whether dibenzazepine could be used as a treatment for alcohol addiction. Using fruit flies, she fed them ethanol and then tested whether dibenzazepine affected how much alcohol they ...

To improve batting ability, baseball players need to face off against a pitcher that can vary its throws. Andrew trained an AI model on 200 images, teaching it to recognize six key points on a batter.

On the morning Michael Woodford learned he had won the 2026 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, he still had an exam to give. His students might have hoped for a cancellation; their professor ...

Working on her family farm, Locklyn learned that some plants could have health benefits. She tested 24 plants for antibiotic activity. She compared plant extracts to commercial antibiotics, measuring ...

Kianoosh wanted to create a low-cost prosthetic hand. He 3D printed prototypes, using pulling line and thermoplastic polyurethane as his ìtendons. He tested different versions of his hand for grip ...

Many people rely on their nose to find out if their food is spoiled. Sartaj developed a meat freshness monitor that measures the ammonia gas produced as meat decomposes. He tested it on chicken, beef, ...

Myreen created a machine learning program to screen molecules for their ability to bind to tau, the protein misfolded in frontotemporal dementia, and tau kinase, one of the enzymes which alters the ...

Isabella learned that microplastics are showing up inside people, and decided to find out whether plants that produce mucilages, like okra, fenugreek and psyllium husk could absorb microplastics.