A 14-year-old’s award-winning invention uses AI to detect pesticides on fruit and vegetables
Subash’s device can detect pesticides on produce with 93% accuracy. When 14-year-old Sirish Subash was told to wash his…
This company’s vision for a smokeless world is driving the transformation of the global tobacco industry
The global British American Tobacco Group (BAT) is pursuing “A Better TomorrowTM by Building a Smokeless World” — and…
A 14-year-old took home $10,000 for his award-winning investigation into train derailments. Here’s what he found.
Gary Allen Montelongo shows off one of his railroad tracks. Toy trains can be a hobby, or they can…
Early SpaceX workers got stuck overnight on an ocean barge with a toxic spaceship, new book reports
SpaceX’s recovery ship lifts a Crew Dragon spaceship from the Atlantic Ocean. If you think your job is exciting,…
Bird flu was detected in a pig, and it could be a tipping point threatening more human transmission
Pigs can be mixing vessels for bird flu and human flu viruses. A bird flu virus has jumped one…
Flash floods are a worsening scourge worldwide — here’s why
Spain is the latest country to be ravaged by flash floods, which have been increasing in frequency around the…
Hurricane season isn’t over. Experts predict a final surge of storms and maybe even a December cyclone.
Hurricane Beryl 2024, as seen from the International Space Station. Hurricane season seems to be rallying for a final…
The world’s most popular banana faces extinction but scientists’ new creation could help save it
The Yelloway One is a new banana variety that’s resistant to deadly fungal diseases. The Netherlands may seem like…
NASA launches a probe to find out if there really could be alien life on Jupiter’s moon Europa
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off carrying NASA’s Europa Clipper mission. NASA is serious about searching for alien…
The year’s biggest, brightest supermoon rises this week. Here’s the best time to see it at its most brilliant.
October’s full moon is known as the Hunter’s Moon, and this year’s is a supermoon. The biggest and brightest…