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Meet Alyssa Yu, the 17-year-old Maryland student who built a mathematical model for what happens when 2 interacting infections spread at once and how vaccination could target the resulting hot spots

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Alyssa Yu (Poolesville High School, Poolesville, MD) A 17-year-old student from Maryland has developed a new mathematical...

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Meet Aashritha Penumudi, the 17-year-old Virginia student who created stalled ribosomes in the lab and trained AI on breast-cancer data; its predictions matched what she saw under the microscope

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Aashritha Penumudi (Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Alexandria, VA) By combining laboratory biology with...

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240,000 miles from Earth, Nasa is building the world’s first ‘space airport’ for the Moon, where spacecraft will have to queue for weeks to avoid traffic |

Aj Mix Editor August 26, 2026

Nearly 240,000 miles from Earth, Nasa is preparing a new kind of transportation hub where spacecraft could...

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In 1920, Arizona introduced bullfrogs as a game species and food source; a century later, the invasive frogs are threatening the Northern Mexican gartersnake |

Aj Mix Editor August 26, 2026

A pond in southern Arizona can look quiet from a distance. Beneath the surface, though, the balance...

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The human brain usually decays first after death, so how have thousands survived for 12,000 years? Scientists uncover the chemistry behind the mystery

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Representative Image (Canva) The human brain is one of the first organs to break down after death,...

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In 2017, an MIT class project explored a new kind of aircraft; it has now grown into an $850 million Ohio factory plan for an 8-motor hybrid plane that can take off from an area about the length of a soccer field

Aj Mix Editor August 26, 2026

Electra takes a different approach to hybrid aviation. Instead of a traditional engine operating the propellers, the...

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A cooling film developed at the University of Illinois was tested on Houston infrastructure for FIFA; treated metal roofs stayed over 40°F cooler in direct sunlight without using electricity |

Aj Mix Editor August 26, 2026

In Houston, the heat is part of the setting. During the FIFA Fan Festival, though, some of...

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Quote of the day by Albert Einstein: “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then…” |

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Image(s): Left/ Princeton University/Right/Wikipedia While a desk covered in books, papers and unfinished notes may be seen...

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6,500 years ago, someone drilled a human tooth and wore it as a pendant; archaeologists found it sitting in a Serbian museum collection

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When archeologists found the tooth it was already damaged, measuring only 23 millimeters. Its crown had been...

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In 2025, 11-year-old Touren Pope spotted a fossil exposed on the ground in Wyoming; it turned out to be a nearly complete 48-million-year-old turtle shell, and he was allowed to name it

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11-year-old Touren Pope finds 48-million-year-old turtle fossil in WyomingPhoto credit: Craig Thomas, BLM Rock Springs Field Office...

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