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Prince William County students swept awards across 10 categories at Virginia's premier youth research symposium, with honors spanning botany to computational biology. Middle schoolers also claimed top spots alongside their high school counterparts.
A 148-year-old Thai pharmaceutical company is transforming local biodiversity into science-backed skincare that fights aging from within. By partnering with university researchers, B.GRIMM Pharma is turning snail mucus and orchid extracts into products that strengthen skin for the long haul.
South Korea just made it easier for world-class scientists and researchers to build their careers there, cutting red tape and offering a path to permanent residency in just three years. The move aims to attract 2,000 talented researchers by 2030 in fields like AI and semiconductors.
High schoolers in Prince William County just presented a year's worth of research tackling everything from brewery syndrome to earthquake detection. These aren't science fair volcanos—they're real solutions to problems affecting millions.
MIT's president is making an urgent case for protecting university research funding as budget cuts threaten America's innovation pipeline. Her fight could determine whether the next generation of cancer treatments and AI breakthroughs happen in the U.S. or elsewhere.
A new competition lets researchers test experiments at the edge of space and return to fly again in months instead of years. The Aurora spaceplane takes off and lands like a regular plane, making space access as routine as commercial flights.
Hailey Mulvihill from Wittenberg University just became her school's first-ever Goldwater Scholar, joining only 454 students nationwide to win America's most prestigious undergraduate research award. The biochemistry major beat out thousands of competitors and earned $7,500 to fund her senior year.
Scientists are using AI at record levels, with mentions in research papers jumping 30-fold since 2010. But when it comes to complex tasks, human experts still beat the best AI agents by a wide margin.
Four Embry-Riddle graduates earned National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships this year, the university's highest number ever. They're now pursuing breakthrough research in everything from quantum computing to exploding stars.
While AI can crunch data faster than ever, a philosopher explains why scientific discovery will always need the human touch. The answer reveals something beautiful about how knowledge really grows.