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.

Antibiotics are used in livestock, and can end up in manure, promoting antibiotic resistant bacteria. Virinchi hunted for antibiotic-resistant bacteria in cow, chicken and fish manure, bat guano and ...

After seeing her grandfather suffer from heartburn, Sai Sri Valli tried to make antacid medications last longer. She combined calcium carbonate with sodium alginate to make gel beads and tested them ...

Rye compared plantain and bananas to find which would make the better bioplastic. She counted amyloplasts ó cells that make starch ó in each fruit and extracted their starch. She then made bioplastic ...

Sanat designed an unmanned aerial vehicle to help fight wildfires. He built a drone with a water launcher. With the help of sonar and sensors, the drone aims at the hottest point in a blaze. His model ...

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, ...

Seijiís violin teacher wanted him to play with more expression, and Seiji wanted to know which sound was most expressive. He modeled a violin string, and measured variations in bow speed and pressure.

Wileidy used plantain peels to make a biodegradable mulch to control weeds. She chopped up peels from the school cafeteria and created bioplastic sheets. She compared her bioplastic to plastic ...

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, ...

Parthvi studied how soil burned in a wildfire could be improved, by measuring nutrients in burned and nonburned soil and treating the soils with compost, biochar, mulch and a soil restoration kit to ...

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 ...