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Meet Ankan Das, the 15-year-old Florida student who built a shape-shifting robot that crawls on Moon soil and squeezes through tight spaces |

Representative Image of a tensegrity robot navigating obstacles during a search-and-rescue mission (AI-generated image) Ankan Das is a 15-year-old sophomore at Oviedo High School in Florida, but his latest science-fair project looks more like something from a robotics laboratory than a school classroom. For his Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair project, Das built a…

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Meet Ella Lu, the 17-year-old North Carolina student who taught AI to recognise how Impressionist painters arranged objects in their paintings |

Ella Lu. Image Credit: Chris Ayers/Society for Science Ella Lu, a 17-year-old student from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, has found a way to bring two different interests of ‘art’ and ‘computer science’ together. As a senior at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics(NCSSM), Lu developed a system that can study how objects are…

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A Costa Rican mother saved for 9 years to buy land, then built her home with 7 tonnes of recycled plastic | World News

Cindy Mora and her son’s home used about 850 blocks made from recycled plastic, PC: Econews Cindy Mora Abarca spent 9 years saving money for a small plot of land in the Lámparas neighbourhood of Alajuelita, near San José, Costa Rica, hoping to eventually build a permanent home for herself and her 6-year-old son, Fabrizio….

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Kejriwal attacks BJP after Satyendar Jain’s arrest, calls it ‘dictatorship’ | India News

Kejriwal accused the BJP of using false charges to imprison people and questioned who would compensate those subjected to imprisonment and alleged mental harassment. NEW DELHI: AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal on Monday reacted sharply to the arrest of former Delhi minister Satyendar Jain in an alleged corruption case linked to the Delhi Jal Board,…

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In 1951, a New Jersey couple bought 185 acres as a summer retreat after which an injured owl turned their property into a wildlife refuge | World News

Jim and Betty Woodford. Image Credit: Cedar Run Wildlife refuge In 1951, Jim and Betty Woodford bought 185 acres in what was then the largely undeveloped Medford Township, New Jersey, hoping to create a summer retreat. But the land became the foundation for a lifelong commitment to wildlife. According to the Cedar Run website, the…

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Moroccan women once walked hours to collect water; now giant nets harvest drinking water from mountain fog | World News

Representative Image of engineered mesh capturing fog droplets on Mount Boutmezguida for water collection (AI-generated image) High on Mount Boutmezguida in southwest Morocco, more than 4,000 feet above sea level, rows of black mesh stand directly in the path of Atlantic fog rolling through the Anti-Atlas Mountains. As the fog passes through the mesh, tiny…

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FDA’s Tukaram Mundhe warns Shah Rukh Khan, Ajay Devgn and Tiger Shroff could face Rs 10 lakh fine over elaichi ad: ‘Legal action can be taken’ | Hindi Movie News

FDA’s Tukaram Mundhe warns Shah Rukh Khan, Ajay Devgn, and Tiger Shroff could face Rs 10 lakh fine over elaichi ad: ‘Legal action can be taken’ Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Tukaram Mundhe has said that Bollywood actors Shah Rukh Khan, Ajay Devgn and Tiger Shroff could face a fine of up to…

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‘Increase drug testing from 10% to 25% for pilots:’ FIA to DGCA chief Vir Vikram Yadav | India News

FIP has identified certain medicines that may impact flight safety by causing drowsiness or sedation; impairing judgement or reaction time; reducing alertness and resulting in a positive or non-negative drug test. NEW DELHI: As the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) reviews the dope test requirement for flight crew members, the Federation of Indian Pilots…

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In 1944, a Vermont woman used money meant for a fur coat to buy a 150-acre farm; 20 years later she gave it to Audubon for wildlife conservation | World News

Representative Image of a 150-acre Vermont landscape where a historic dairy farm has become a thriving nature preserve (AI-generated image) In 1944, Christine Hires, a member of the family behind Hires Root Beer, was vacationing in Vermont when she fell in love with the landscape and decided to buy a 150-acre dairy farm in what…

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