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Meet Sirish Subash: The 14-year-old who invented an AI-powered pesticide detector for fruits and vegetables and won $25,000 |

Aj Mix Editor August 10, 2026

A 14-year-old Georgia student has turned a common kitchen concern into an award-winning science project. Sirish Subash,...

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In 2013, honeybees were trained to find land mines left behind by the Balkan wars, turning their extraordinary sense of smell into an unlikely detection tool |

Aj Mix Editor August 10, 2026

Croatia was still dealing with the hidden legacy of the Balkan wars when scientists began looking to...

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The world’s largest solar telescope resolved the Sun at about 19-km scale and revealed ubiquitous plasma vortices that may help explain how magnetic energy moves

Aj Mix Editor August 10, 2026

The observations were made with the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST), a powerful 4-metre class solar...

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Mercury is still shrinking after billions of years: How its giant cooling core is cracking the planet’s thin crust |

Aj Mix Editor August 10, 2026

Mercury is the smallest planet in the Solar System, only slightly larger than Earth’s Moon, but what...

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Wyoming’s Casper landfill buried 1,124 turbine blades after each was cut into three pieces; a Missouri plant offers another route by turning old blades into cement feedstock

Aj Mix Editor August 10, 2026

Outside Casper, pieces of turbine blades cut through were lowered by a loader into a trench for...

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Florida scientists are turning rice husk waste into reusable water filters that can remove pollutants from contaminated water |

Aj Mix Editor August 10, 2026

Rice leaves behind more than a meal. After the grain has been processed, the tough outer husk...

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In 1991, NASA sent jellyfish into space, but many struggled to swim properly after returning to Earth |

Aj Mix Editor August 10, 2026

Representative Image of jellyfish floating gracefully in a microgravity environment (AI-generated image) In 1991, NASA sent jellyfish...

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Scientists trained honeybees to recognise human faces, showing how tiny brains can distinguish faces by the arrangement of their features |

Aj Mix Editor August 10, 2026

Honeybees can be trained with nothing more than the promise of a sugary reward; they learn to...

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Scientists discovered that animal poop travelled across oceans 540-million-years ago and triggered the evolution of life on earth |

Aj Mix Editor August 10, 2026

A large coprolite of a carnivorous dinosaur found in Harding County, South Dakota, US. Image Credit: Poozeum/Wikipedia...

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This insect makes a house of silk and leaves and then carries it everywhere on its back for safety

Aj Mix Editor August 9, 2026

Many species of bagworms choose to use twigs and small sticks to make their casings Imagine building...

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