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Utilizing Nature's Power: Lotus Leaves Turned into Electricity Generators
By: Cooper Shealy, Journalist
By using the hydrovolcanic electricity generation method induced by living leaf transpiration, they have found a way to turn lotus leaves into a continuous power source.
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Why (Or Why Not) You Should Eat Insects
By: Emma Huang, Journalist
Studies say that around one-fourth of Americans have Entomophobia, the fear of insects, and it does make sense. Insects are squirmy and filthy, and some even suck blood. But did you know that around 2 billion members of the world eat insects in their daily diet? So what's the deal with insect diets, and are they really better?
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The Process of Recycling
The Process of Recycling
By: Emma Huang, Journalist
You probably have thrown items into a blue bin, but where do the items go? Where do they end up?
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The Rise of Green Chemistry
By: Brandon Haase, Journalist
Green chemistry is the solution to our world problem of global warming, dealing with the root of the problem instead of just the effects. Using twelve principles to create better, safer alternatives to dangerous chemicals.
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Innovating Air Pumps
By: Gadea Martinez Aparicio, Journalist
Today, air pumps are small and powerful, with sizes varying from 2 inches to 20 depending on the size of your tank and the amount of water inside.
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Airbags to Algorithms: How Crash Tests Are Remaking Car Design
By: Miles Kowalewski, Journalist
Crashes. That is what you are here to learn about, so I'll tell you all about them.
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New Battery Uses Salt Water In Estuaries To Generate Electricity
By: Andres Martinez Aparicio, Journalist

Dongdong Yea, Xingzhen Qin, and colleagues designed a semipermeable membrane from environmentally friendly materials to generate electricity. The invention uses estuaries and salt differences in concentration...

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Cicadas Are Coming Back
By: Christine Nguyen, Journalist
Two rare broods of cicadas are expected to emerge this year in an occurrence that has not taken place in about 200 years. These two types of cicadas, Brood XIX and Brood XIII, will emerge in the trillions in 17 different states and are predicted to surface when the ground temperature reaches about 64 degrees.
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Permian Fracking In Texas
Permian Fracking In Texas
By: Landon Tucker, Journalist
The Permian fracking industry in Texas produces about 168 billion gallons of wastewater a year. Globally, that number becomes increasingly high and disturbing: 359 billion cubic meters a year.
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Misophonia
By: Sofie Schopfer, Journalist
What is Misophonia? Misophonia is a sound sensitivity that can cause intense reactions to hearing certain "trigger" sounds. While there may be no current cures for Misophonia, there are several different ways to lessen the severity.
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The Shaky Story Of Parkinson's
The Shaky Story Of Parkinson's
By: Simrin Puri, Journalist
Parkinson's is a degenerative disease that has caused so many people to live their last moments bedridden. But what is it and is there a cure?
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The Most Boring Parts of School Fixed With Fun And Games
By: Kaden Brock, Journalist
Educational games can improve hand-eye coordination and motor skills, a few games may require small movements and the repetitive task can improve writing skills and muscle memory. These skills can be useful for writing, field games or sports, and drawing.
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Fortnites Marvel Season Absolute Doom, Everything You Need To Know
By: Teddy Mckenrick, Journalist
There are three new named locations in Fortnite Absolute Doom, with all of them having mythic weapons and medallions. There are eight new battle pass skins, with Marvel heros and villains along with Marvel and Fortnite mash up skins.     
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Melanoma - The Most Dangerous Skin Cancer And Treatments
By: Victoria Neacsu, Journalist
Melanoma is the most deadly skin cancer. However, it is curable, if you catch it early on.
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How To Use FL Studio
By: Anas Abukar, Journalist

Overview In this article, you will learn the basics of how FL Studio works, the things you will learn include: what the channel rack is, how...

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The Silent Symphony
By: Ben Wandow, Journalist
Traffic rumbles, chatter erupts, construction roars – the constant assault of noise pollution disrupts our lives and impacts our well-being. Thankfully, innovative engineering solutions like noise-canceling technology offer a quiet refuge within the urban cacophony.
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The Evolution and Impact of Wireless Communication on Society
The Evolution and Impact of Wireless Communication on Society
By: Basheir Khalid, Journalist
Wireless communication has changed the way we connect and talk to each other. It all started with the telegraph in the 19th century, which allowed messages to be sent over long distances using electrical signals. This was the beginning of wireless communication without the need for physical wires. The development of radio technology allowed for audio broadcasts and later, television transmissions.
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How are you able to run for a longer time?
How are you able to run for a longer time?
By: Ashley Lopez, Journalist
An idea to prepare yourself before running a long distance or time, is trying to pace yourself to start running every week increasingly so that your body starts to get use to all force on your legs while running.
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How An Engine Works!
By: Levani Goshua, Journalist
How Does An Engine Work? The inside of the engine consists of cylinders, pistons, fuel injectors, and spark plugs. These components combined burn fuel and exhaust gas out of the cylinders. By repeating this process the engine creates energy that moves the car.
Why Hydrogen Cars Will Be the Normal in 2028
Why Hydrogen Cars Will Be the Normal in 2028
By: Oliver Novack, Journalist
By 2030 there are predicted to be $1.5 billion dollars in Hydrogen charging stations in the US. Hydrogen cars only take about 5 minutes to fully charge from an empty tank.
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How Acid Rain Attacks Automobiles
By: Zouli Alexandratos, Journalist
While generally related to environmental degradation and ecosystem damage, acid rain plays its destructive magic on more than just nature alone. It also insidiously works on taking away from the very vehicles that drive down our streets
Indian Brothers Build Car-Copter
Indian Brothers Build Car-Copter
By: Gary Taylor, Journalist
Ishwardin Prajapati and Parmeshwardin Prajapati, two Indian brothers from Uttar Pradesh, India, transformed their Suzuki Wagon R into a helicopter-like vehicle. They purchased the car for 100,000 rupees (about $1,300) and made extensive modifications over several weeks in their makeshift workshop.
2024 Toyota Mirai
2024 Toyota Mirai
By: Christopher Carballo, Journalist
The 2024 Toyota Mirai is known for its amazing durability being a hydro-powered car. The Toyota Mirai has an astounding range. It can go for about 400 miles before needing to be refueled again.
2024 Toyota Prius Prime
2024 Toyota Prius Prime
By: Christopher Carballo, Journalist
The 2024 Toyota Prius Prime, is a car known for its durability and movement. The outside of the 2024 Toyota Prius Prime has a very attractive look compared to all the other cars in the Toyota brand.
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Private Mission to the Hubble Space Telescope Brings Concerns
By: Rory Peterson, Journalist
The Hubble Space Telescope, which has been in Earth Orbit for over 3 decades now, is expected to deorbit in 2034, bringing a close to a major asset that has helped NASA and the world at-large understand the universe. In 2022, billionaire and major funder of the Polaris Program, Jared Isaacman, announced that he would fly to Hubble and perform maintenance on the Telescope, and it would be completely funded privately.
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Primordial Black holes
By: Brandon Tao, Journalist
Primordial Black holes are the smallest black holes to ever exist in the universe, they were smaller than a proton, & just as mysterious as dark matter. While unknown if they exist, their existence could answer many questions about how our universe evolved & came to be.
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Ancient lake on Mars
Ancient lake on Mars
By: Patrick Verasin, Journalist
Nasa's Perseverance rover has found a ancient lake on Mars proving that mars used to have a large body of water. Mars used to be a habitable place like earth.
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China Lands on the Far Side of the Moon
By: Rory Peterson, Journalist
In the early hours of June 2, 2024, the Chinese Chang'e 6 lander touched down on the dark side of the Moon. This success marks the second time China has landed on the far side of the Moon, and the second time any country has landed there.
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Boeing's Starliner Set To Launch Soon
By: Rory Peterson, Journalist
Boeing's Starliner is finally launching with crew to the International Space Station, after several delays and a failed mission. It will launch to the ISS on June 1st, with two crewmembers, Barry "Butch" Wilmore, and Suni Williams, both are former U.S. Navy test pilots.
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Venus Might Be As Volcanically Active As Earth.
By: William Bohoney, Journalist
A recent examination of data collected by NASA's Magellan spacecraft in the early 1990s has revealed evidence of recent lava flows on the planet's surface. Venus may be more geologically active than previously believed.
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How To Calculate a Star's Age
By: William Bohoney, Journalist
Star birth, life, and death are all topics that scientists are rather well-versed in. But the tricky part is figuring out precisely when a star goes through each step of its life cycle.
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Rock from the explosion that formed the Moon is still lingering inside of the Earths mantle
By: William Bohoney, Journalist
Some scientists have proposed that these formations are the remains of tectonic plates that were pushed beneath others and then descended to the boundary between Earth's outer core and the mantle above. However, Yuan and his team present a different explanation.
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Mars Rovers: Pioneers of Exploration
By: Tiger Deng, Journalist
These robotic pioneers have not only traversed the Martian landscape but also reshaped our understanding of this distant world, revealing its secrets one discovery at a time.
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New Horizons: The Space Probe That Flew By Pluto
By: Tiger Deng, Journalist
New Horizons pushed the boundaries of space exploration and provided humanity with unprecedented insights into the distant reaches of our solar system.
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Lunar Laser Ranging Experiments
By: Tiger Deng, Journalist
Lunar Laser Ranging experiments offer insights into the moon's secrets with unparalleled accuracy.
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Quasi Stars
By: Brandon Tao, Journalist
Quasi-Stars are amongst the largest stars ever to of ever existed in the universe, they burned brighter than galaxies & dwarfed any stars that exist today or could ever exist in the future. But the strange part is that they were inhabited by a black hole, slowly devouring it from the inside out.
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Why Humanoid Robots are NOT the Future
By: Jiaxiang Xie, Journalist
As robots are getting progressively more and more advanced, it's not long before we are advanced enough to build humanoid robots, as Elon Musk and Boston Dynamics have already been working on their humanoid robots for years.
Tiny Titans
Tiny Titans
By: Ben Wandow, Journalist
Imagine a world where surgery happens from the inside out. Microscopic robots, smaller than a grain of rice, navigate your bloodstream, delivering medication directly to diseased cells or performing delicate procedures with unmatched precision.
Generative AI is becoming the future
Generative AI is becoming the future
By: Esah Sheikh, Journalist
Generative AI is a huge advancement in AI. The future is relying on automation and this technology helps us move further.
Boston Dynamics Robot Dog - Spot
Spot: The Robot Changing The World
By: Zouli Alexandratos, Journalist
Spot was originally made for R&D, but it has quickly moved to many industries including construction, energy, security, and even healthcare. A large part of what makes Spot successful is its form factor.
Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology
By: Liam Eckerman, Journalist
In the field of electronics, nanotechnology has the potential to create smaller, faster, and more efficient devices. This could lead to advancements in areas such as artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and quantum computing.
The New Boston Dynamics Atlas
The New Boston Dynamics Atlas
By: Tyler Cline, Journalist
This new robot set to replace it is all-electric, much smaller, less heavy, and has a much higher range of motion. These allow it to be superior to the old robot in many ways.
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Prosthetics
By: Kate Li, Journalist
What if you were born without a limb? What could you do?
Penguin Inspired AUV
Penguin Inspired AUV
By: Bryan Xi, Journalist
Penguins, the swift swimmers of Antarctica; the perfect model for an underwater drone. That's exactly what the German company EvoLogics thought when the built the Quadroin AUV.
China's New Stealth Drone
China's New Stealth Drone
By: DoWon Lee, Journalist
China's CH-7 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) redefines modern warfare. With its structural capability along with a 15 kilometer air ceiling, the drone is scheduled to finish this year.
The AI Death Calculator
The AI Death Calculator
By: DoWon Lee, Journalist
Using sequences of life-events to predict human lives, this calculator can also predict job, income, and other information about people. This calculator may seem fake, but with recent studies and tests, this AI calculator can really be a predictor of the future.
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Starlink, what it is and how it works.
By: Salar Nasimov, Journalist
The primary goal of Starlink is to provide satellite internet connectivity to underserved areas of the planet, as well as provide competitively priced service to urban areas. The project aims to improve upon the delay traditionally associated with satellite internet, making it a viable alternative to cable or fiber connections.
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Japan's New Wooden Satellite
By: Salar Nasimov, Journalist
The idea behind the wooden satellite is simple yet genius. Wood doesn't block electromagnetic waves or the Earth's magnetic field. Therefore, devices within the satellite could work without the need for additional sensors or antennas, potentially reducing the amount of metal needed.
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Automation
Large Language Models
By: Gadea Martinez Aparicio, Journalist
How did AI advance so far so fast, and become the powerful computing network that it is now? In reality, ChatGPT is just a large exercise in statistics, and though it can't understand words, it can understand numbers.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Neuromorphic Computing - the Computers that Mimic the Brain
By: Clara Steffens, Journalist
Neuromorphic Computing was formulated in the late 1980s by a professor and a PhD student from Caltech University. Professor Carver Mead and Misha Mahowald thought there was an easier way for AI to learn and process information; a way that copied the human brain and nervous system.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Japan's Police Use AI-Powered Drones to Prevent Crime in Disaster-Affected Areas
By: Cooper Shealy, Journalist
Japan authorities taking a proactive step to protect the safety of natural disaster affected areas.
Deepfakes
Automation
Deepfakes
By: Nylah Nasim, Journalist
Deep learning is a method of AI, one that studies facial expressions to produce deepfakes, artificial images or videos. Can we still trust digital services, including our news and what else we may have thought as reliable sources?
Laser Maze Security System
Automation
Laser Maze Security System
By: Gary Taylor, Benjamin Nguyen, and David Leach
For our engineering project, we made a laser maze security system. A laser maze security system uses a laser that connects to a LDR(Light Dependant Resistor), and when that beam is crossed, an alarm goes off.
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Automation
How Delivery Robots Can Help The World
By: Jacob Bloom, Journalist
Delivery robots have become an essential aspect of modern society, offering a wide range of benefits that go beyond mere convenience. While many people believe that delivery robots are primarily used for delivering food, the truth is that their potential extends far beyond just that.
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Automation
Lightspeed
By: Audrey Bang, Journalist
With the new advances in technology, the dangers the internet presents grow in amount. Lightspeed is paving the way for the protection of student computers in schools, and helping teachers manage and control student's computers to redirect them to stay on task.
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Health
TranscribeGlass: The Revolutionary Glasses That Transcribe Speech in Real-Time
By: Cooper Shealy, Journalist
TranscribeGlass is a new technology that is changing the way people with hearing loss communicate with others. These high-tech glasses can transcribe speech in real-time and display the text as subtitles on the lenses in front of the wearer's eyes. This innovative technology has the potential to help people who are deaf or hard of hearing communicate more seamlessly with hearing people.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Different Types Of Artificial Intelligence
By: Jiaxiang Xie, Journalist
When you think about Artificial Intelligence, Chat-GPT or Alexa probably comes to mind, but AI can be much more than that. From simple if-else AIs, to AI's that can understand emotions, there's not just one singular type of AI that classifies them all. There are four different types of AI, and all four will be covered in this article. 
A printed circuit board with four Xilinx FPGAs Virtex-E XCV400E-PQ240.
Automation
What is an FPGA?
By: Tyler Cline, Journalist
An FPGA is an integrated circuit made out of a semiconductor, where the user can reconfigure the logic multiple times after manufacturing to meet their requirements. This property makes them very different from application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) because ASICs can only do the specific task they were designed for.
An E-Glove Used To Help Scuba Divers Communicate
Automation
An E-Glove Used To Help Scuba Divers Communicate
By: Daniel Do, Journalist
Hand gestures are used to relay messages such as, "Shark!" and "I'm okay." To further advance the development of the e-glove, a volunteer held up 16 different hand gestures.
Some of the infinite things you can make with Infinite Craft
Automation
The Rise of Infinite Craft
By: Marek Solow, Journalist
Neal.fun has once again come out with a popular game taking the Internet by storm, Infinite Craft.
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