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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 machine learning, a 17-year-old student from Virginia has gained new insights into how protein production can go wrong in cancer cells. Aashritha Penumudi, a senior at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, studied a…

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 |

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Nearly 240,000 miles from Earth, Nasa is preparing a new kind of transportation hub where spacecraft could one day arrive, wait, dock and depart without a single runway, road or parking bay. The Gateway space station, planned for lunar orbit as part of the Artemis programme, is expected to host Orion crew capsules, lunar landers…

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

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A pond in southern Arizona can look quiet from a distance. Beneath the surface, though, the balance between species can be very different from what it was a century ago. Among the animals affected is the northern Mexican gartersnake, a wetland-dependent reptile that hunts along streams, ponds and cienegas across parts of the Southwest.Its decline…

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

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Electra takes a different approach to hybrid aviation. Instead of a traditional engine operating the propellers, the aircraft has a gas-powered generator in the nose. (Image: MIT News) A class project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2017 studied a new type of aircraft; now, it has ballooned into a $850 million Ohio…

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 |

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In Houston, the heat is part of the setting. During the FIFA Fan Festival, though, some of the infrastructure around the event had a rather different experience of the Texas summer. Roofs treated with a thin cooling film stayed dramatically cooler than nearby untreated metal surfaces, even while sitting beneath direct sunlight.The material was not…

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 as a sign of an untidy mind, the great scientist Albert Einstein had a different view of this assumption. In particular, he asked, “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is…

Columbia engineers built a pigment-free polymer coating filled with microscopic air pores; under Arizona desert sun, the coated surface stayed about 6°C below ambient air

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Porous polymer coating reflects sunlight and releases heat, keeping surfaces cooler than the air As temperatures rise during hot weather, keeping buildings and other structures cool can require large amounts of energy. Air conditioners are a common way to deal with the heat, but they consume electricity and need access to cooling systems and, in…

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 split by agricultural activity into two parts. (Image Courtesy: N. Marković) It sat on a museum shelf for nearly twenty years, unseen, mistaken for something far more common. But now a closer look at a tiny, worn tooth…

1,500-year-old child burial unearthed in Peru with whistles, a rattle and a striking sculptural vessel, archaeologists uncover clues to an ancient civilisation’s rituals

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Huacas de Moche (Image Credit: Canva) Archaeologists working at the Huacas de Moche Archaeological Complex in northern Peru have uncovered the burial of an infant estimated to be about 1,500 years old. The child, approximately 1.5 years old, was buried with a funerary assemblage that included two whistles, a rattle and a sculptural vessel. Researchers…

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 What began as a routine family rock-hounding trip in southwest Wyoming turned into a paleontological headline when 11-year-old Touren Pope noticed something unusual poking out of the ground. What he’d spotted was the fossilized shell of a softshell…