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Meet Claire Jiang, the 18-year-old New Jersey student diagnosed with juvenile arthritis in third grade who built a lab model of the disease; her research won $70,000

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Meet Claire Jiang, the 18-year-old New Jersey student diagnosed with juvenile arthritis in third grade who built a lab model of the disease; her research won $70,000

Claire Jian, Bergen County Academies, Hackensack, NJ (Source: Society for Science) An 18-year-old student who was diagnosed with juvenile idiopathic arthritis in primary school has won seventh place and a $70,000 award in the 2026 Regeneron Science Talent Search for developing a new laboratory cell model of the disease. Claire Jiang, a senior at Bergen … Read more

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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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

Alyssa Yu (Poolesville High School, Poolesville, MD) A 17-year-old student from Maryland has developed a new mathematical framework to predict how multiple infectious diseases interact and spread through connected populations at the same time. Alyssa Yu, a senior at Poolesville High School in Montgomery County, created the computer model to address a major gap in … Read more

Meet Zeynep Demirbas, the New York eighth-grader who tested whether AI can recognise stress; a basic machine-learning model beat ChatGPT-4o

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Meet Zeynep Demirbas, the New York eighth-grader who tested whether AI can recognise stress; a basic machine-learning model beat ChatGPT-4o

Zeynep’s work earned her a finalist place in the 2025 Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Fourteen-year-old Zeynep Demirbas has found that ChatGPT-4o is less accurate than a mental health-focused AI model and a simpler machine-learning system at detecting stress in human written text.Zeynep, an eighth-grade student at Transit Middle School in East Amherst, New … Read more

Beyond Silicon Valley: India and UAE are building new human-centric AI models

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Beyond Silicon Valley: India and UAE are building new human-centric AI models

India-UAE Artificial Intelligence Partnership: Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Collaboration for Social Welfare and Growth By 2026, Asia’s two fastest growing digital economies, India and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), will deepen cooperation in artificial intelligence (AI), moving beyond commercial interests towards a shared vision of human-centered AI that emphasizes social welfare, responsible governance, equitable growth and … Read more