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.

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

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

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.

Gael was upset to learn his fishing catch could contain microplastics. He used shellfish-derived chitosan to clean pollutants from water. He showed chitosan cleaned 55-75 percent of plastic particles, ...

When Ellianna found out that many teens were turning to AI chatbots for friendship and emotional help, she wondered how well the chatbots handled emotions. She used AI to come up with emotional ...

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 ...

Hanna studied how salt water might affect aquatic plants and organisms that depend on fresh water. She prepared five concentrations of salt and tested them on mung bean seeds and the crustacean ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...