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17-year-old girl invents sound-powered fire extinguisher that douses flames without water or chemicals, wins gold at international eventA 17-year-old Mexican student, Ángela Karime Venegas Hernández, won gold at the International Science and Invention Fair 2026 in Indonesia ...- 13-year-old Kaia Minn uses orange peels to develop biodegradable seed pods that could help restore forestsA 13-year-old teen girl from Massachusetts, Kaia Minn, has developed biodegradable seed pods using discarded citrus peels and other plant-b...
- A $5 nut doomed SpaceX’s first rocket; its satellite crashed through a shed roof and landed beside its own shipping crateIn March 2006, SpaceX’s first rocket failed because of a $5 aluminium nut that cracked from corrosion. The cadet-built satellite on board w...
- In 2009, two designers began working on a battery-free lamp, their idea led to a device powered by a bag of rocksMartin Riddiford and Jim Reeves developed GravityLight to provide affordable lighting for families without reliable electricity. The device...
- Is your used kitchen oil the future of aviation? Kelantan innovators turn UCO into sustainable jet fuelYour used kitchen oil can also power a jet! These Malaysian innovators are now turning waste into renewable energy - Meet Arjuna Dharma Glo...
- Scholar and botanist, who was 'living encyclopaedia' of plants, wrote 30 books, lived 80 years without electricity, owned just two saris. Who was Dr Hema Sane?She was a renowned scholar in botany and a walking encyclopaedia of plants. However, late botanist and educator Dr Hema Sane lived eight de...
- China fuel export suspension to choke supplies in AsiaChina's recent export restrictions on oil products have affected several major importers in Southeast Asia and Australia. Singapore has see...
- 14-year-old Indian-origin student develops handheld AI pesticide detector, named America’s Top Young ScientistA 14-year-old Indian-origin student from Georgia has gained recognition for developing PestiSCAND, a handheld device that uses artificial i...
- Gen Z friends turned their shared pickle obsession on TikTok into a food startup now valued at Rs 81 croreLeah Marcus and Yasaman Bakhtiar began exchanging pickle videos on TikTok in 2023 before leaving their jobs to create Good Girl Snacks. The...
- Scientists develop high-performance plastic from CO2 that can be repeatedly recycledA study from Colorado State University and Northwestern University has developed a carbon dioxide-based polyester system designed for repea...
- How a ketchup bottle cap helped Princeton researchers develop a shape-shifting robotPrinceton Engineering researchers led by Glaucio Paulino have drawn inspiration from the familiar snap of a ketchup bottle cap to develop a...
- Class 12 student from West Bengal comes up with soundless hammer after noisy renovation leaves him frustratedClass 12 student Prithwish developed the idea of a soundproof hammer after renovation work at his home exposed him to prolonged constructio...
- Bangladesh raises fuel prices by up to 17% amid global oil price surgeBangladesh has raised fuel prices by up to seventeen percent. This move piles fresh pressure on consumers and businesses already struggling...
- 16-year-old built an AI tool after becoming a victim of a deepfake, here’s what happened nextVaishnav Anand was 16 when he started building DeepTrust after experiencing a deepfake himself. The high school student developed AI techno...
- In 1921, Alaskan seamstress Ada Blackjack joined an Arctic expedition for $50 a month; nearly two years later, she was rescued as its only surviving personAda Blackjack joined an Arctic expedition for $50 monthly pay. She became the sole human survivor after others perished or vanished. Blackj...
- India's August crude oil imports fall over 11% month-on-monthIndia's crude oil imports in August witnessed a significant decline, falling by more than eleven percent compared to July. On an annual bas...
- His kerosene stove pump broke and he went hungry, then this UP mechanic invented a pumpless stoveUttar Pradesh mechanic Sameerul Hasan Liyaqati, popularly known as “Lalla Mistri”, developed a pumpless kerosene stove after a broken air p...
- 16-year-old Class 11 student built hybrid stove using kerosene and steam, IIT Guwahati found it could help save 20% fuelA 16-year-old Class 11 student from Madhya Pradesh, Vyasji Mishra, developed a hybrid stove that combined kerosene and steam while particip...
- Jalgaon man built a cheaper-than-LPG smokeless kerosene stove that generated 8 hours of flame from 2 litres that cost just Rs 15 per hourSarfuddin Kazi, a machinist from Jalgaon, Maharashtra, developed a kerogas stove after studying the working of a petromax and looking for a...
- In 2024, a homeless man entered a church in England played Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody, now he has a home and $50,000 collectionRhys Wynne-Jones, who had experienced homelessness for about a decade, gained worldwide attention after a video of him playing Queen’s “Boh...
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