Meet Tanishka Aglave, the 17-year-old Valrico, Florida student who built a curry leaf treatment, steam system and AI tool to fight citrus greening; she won $50,000
The research was started by Aglave as a freshman and took over 300 hours to complete, often working two hours in the laboratory every other day after school. For Tanishka Aglave, citrus greening isn’t simply a problem that exists in textbooks or…
Meet Aditya Sengupta, the 18-year-old Bellevue student who built an AI system to better predict dangerous clear-air turbulence; his research won $100,000
Aditya Sengupta, 2026 Davidson Fellow Laureate, $100,000 Scholarship, Age: 18, Hometown: Bellevue, WA An 18-year-old student from Bellevue, Washington, has built an artificial intelligence model designed to predict dangerous clear-air turbulence, earning…
In 2004, Toronto began using cold water from 83 metres beneath Lake Ontario to cool downtown buildings; today the system serves 200 buildings across 40 million sq ft
Representative Image (AI-generated) Deep beneath the surface of Lake Ontario, a layer of naturally cold water has become an unlikely part of Toronto’s urban infrastructure. Instead of relying entirely on conventional air-conditioning systems to cool its…
In 2019, US researchers added fluorescent dye to a Pennsylvania mine-water wetland and flew 12 drone missions; a system designed for 29-hour retention held water for only 4.65 hours
Visual observations indicated a retention time of about 61 minutes in Cell 3 and 66 minutes in Cell 4. Monastery Run Wetland 1, near Latrobe, Pennsylvania, was built in 1997-1998 as a passive treatment system for several discharges from an abandoned…
A California reservoir forecasting system could add enough usable water to save $100 million to $200 million a year without building a new reservoir, a study estimates
Representative Image (AI-generated) California’s water problem is often framed around the need for more storage, new infrastructure and expensive construction. But a new study suggests that part of the answer may already be sitting behind the state’s…
Meet Hao Ting Lyu, Qing Ying Cao, Bai Xuan Ye, Yuanhao Zhang and Jia An Pan, Chinese students who built a low-cost underwater messaging system for divers
Image: Conrad Space Center For divers beneath the surface, communication can become surprisingly difficult. Radio signals that work reliably on land do not travel effectively through water, leaving divers dependent on hand signals, pre-arranged plans or…
Is Clover down? Users report payment issues as POS system outage sparks complaints
Clover POS users reported payment disruptions on Sunday. Reports on Downdetector showed a spike in complaints, with payment failures making up the majority of reported issues. Clover merchants reported problems processing card transactions, with most…
‘I was living paycheck to paychek’: Woman says coming back to India from UK after 4 years not happiest decision but right one for nervous system
Woman says going back to India from the UK after 4 years has been good for her nervous system. (AI photo) At a time when students outside India are in a fix to decide whether going back to India would be a better decision because of immigration…
In 2000, Cornell began pulling 39°F water from 250 feet below Cayuga Lake to cool its campus; the system now cuts cooling energy use by about 85%
Cornell is one of the biggest and most esteemed universities in the world, sitting on a hill overlooking the 38-mile-long Cayuga Lake with an area of 2,300 acres. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, most institutions, including Cornell, used CFC chillers.…
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…