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Meet Bailey Quinn Frank, the Fort Lauderdale eighth-grader who built a low-cost air sampler from small fans and filter paper to capture bacterial DNA and explore rural health surveillance

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Meet Bailey Quinn Frank, the Fort Lauderdale eighth-grader who built a low-cost air sampler from small fans and filter paper to capture bacterial DNA and explore rural health surveillance

Bailey Quinn FrankPhoto credit: Society for science When Bailey Quinn Frank learned that scientists can identify species from genetic material left behind in the environment, she saw an opportunity to apply the same idea to public health. The eighth-grader from Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale designed a simple air sampler using small fans and … Read more

Meet Jiaen Jiang, the 16-year-old Texas student who built an electrostatic “magnet” to capture hazardous Moon dust and won $25,000

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Meet Jiaen Jiang, the 16-year-old Texas student who built an electrostatic “magnet” to capture hazardous Moon dust and won $25,000

Jiaen Jiang – Student Researcher in Aerospace, PC: LinkedIn Jiaen Jiang, a 16-year-old student from Rosenberg, Texas, has won a $25,000 Davidson Fellows Scholarship for an engineering project designed to capture fine lunar dust before it enters future Moon habitats. Jiang’s project, called the Moondust Magnet, uses a bipolar interdigitated electrode array to create controlled … Read more

Charlie Kirk statue row: Protestors clash around Times Square; videos capture tense moments

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Supporters of slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk and counter-protesters briefly clashed in New York City’s Times Square on Thursday. A bronze statue commemorating the Turning Point USA founder was unveiled on the first anniversary of his assassination. Artist Sergio Furnari’s statue of Turning Point founder Charlie Kirk is unveiled on the first anniversary of Kirk’s … Read more

Israeli special forces capture Hamas official in raid on Gaza City

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Israeli special forces capture Hamas official in raid on Gaza City

By Nidal al-Mughrabi Israeli special forces capture Hamas official in raid on Gaza City CAIRO, Sept 1 – Israeli special forces captured a Hamas militant leader in a raid in Gaza City on Tuesday while Israeli air strikes meant to protect those troops killed four Palestinians, authorities said. Israel’s military said in a statement that … Read more

‘Venezuela will be reborn’: Maduro shares first photos from US prison since capture

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'Venezuela will be reborn': Maduro shares first photos from US prison since capture

Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro smiles and flashes a peace sign in a photograph. (Photo: @NicolasMaduro) Two photographs posted to Nicolás Maduro’s official social-media accounts on Sunday appear to show the former Venezuelan president smiling and making peace signs at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, nearly eight months after US forces captured him in … Read more

Meet Aniket Sarkar: The 13-year-old 3M Young Scientist who built a low-cost system to capture water from dry air for farmers

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Meet Aniket Sarkar: The 13-year-old 3M Young Scientist who built a low-cost system to capture water from dry air for farmers

PC: 3M Young Scientist Lab Dry air is not completely without water. There is moisture suspended in the atmosphere even when rainfall is scarce, and 13-year-old Aniket Sarkar wanted to find out whether some of it could be recovered for agriculture. His idea led to a low-cost atmospheric water capture system built with ordinary materials, … Read more