Magnetic materials are used to make MRI machines, hard drives, wireless chargers, and phone speakers. It takes a lot of expensive research and development to create new materials. “And there’s no ...

In April 2025, during her junior year, Bernstein was invited to pitch Students Who Sit, a venture she thought could solve this two-sided problem, at the third annual Student Startup Showcase hosted by ...

Imagine needing to solve a problem from the present but in the setting of an ancient civilization. Or space. In an eight-minute skit. With props made by children. Doing just that, students on a team ...

AMES, Iowa -- Jay Newell, an associate professor in Iowa State University's Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication, calls ThinkSpace "the greatest thing since sliced bread" in terms of ...

There is huge potential for AI to transform our world for the better. From enabling early disease detection and accelerating drug discovery, to addressing critical environmental challenges by ...

Further south, the Cape Town’s Maker Faire had its debuted this year. Its founder Omar-Pierre Soubra, a Frenchman living in the US. Maker Faire Africa is independent of Maker Faire US and seeks to ...

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Google has unveiled a new chip that it says marks a major breakthrough in the field of quantum computing, an area seen as the next frontier for many tech companies. However, while Google's ...

Four New Jersey high school juniors formed a nonprofit organization to address real-world problems through STEM education. The group has sent experiments to Senegal to teach students about basic ...

We meet the CDO of the World Food Programme who tells us how he focuses on solving problems from first principles, and how that in turn is helping his organization use data to feed the world. In a ...

Premji highlighted several examples of AI delivering measurable impact, including satellite imagery helping farmers in ...