Young innovators awarded more than $100,000 for research on dementia-related proteins, alternatives to agricultural plastics and wildfire prevention Key ...

Society for Science today announced the winners of the Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge (Thermo Fisher ...

Last month, Maya Hammoud spoke at the Concordia Annual Summit in New York, held alongside the United Nations General ...

The Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Finals Week (Thermo Fisher JIC) is underway in Washington, D.C.

After seeing her grandfather suffer from heartburn, Sai Sri Valli tried to make antacid medications last longer. She combined calcium carbonate with sodium alginate to make gel beads and tested them ...

Rye compared plantain and bananas to find which would make the better bioplastic. She counted amyloplasts ó cells that make starch ó in each fruit and extracted their starch. She then made bioplastic ...

Sanat designed an unmanned aerial vehicle to help fight wildfires. He built a drone with a water launcher. With the help of sonar and sensors, the drone aims at the hottest point in a blaze. His model ...

How Do Calcium Carbonate Crystals Affect Bacterial Growth? When Shrikari learned about a type of bacteria that could make calcium carbonate crystals, she wondered how calcium carbonate could affect ...

Wileidy used plantain peels to make a biodegradable mulch to control weeds. She chopped up peels from the school cafeteria and created bioplastic sheets. She compared her bioplastic to plastic ...

Olympia studied how general or specific language affected how political messages were received. She compared language in 11,725 posts from X and measured the sentiment in how people responded to them.

Parthvi studied how soil burned in a wildfire could be improved, by measuring nutrients in burned and nonburned soil and treating the soils with compost, biochar, mulch and a soil restoration kit to ...

Working on her family farm, Locklyn learned that some plants could have health benefits. She tested 24 plants for antibiotic activity. She compared plant extracts to commercial antibiotics, measuring ...