(January 19, 2025) On his first visit to an apiary, Aakash Manaswi opened up a beehive, expecting it to be “golden and yellow and shiny.” Instead, he was shocked to find the hive covered in brown spots—evidence of the pest infestations that are the bain of...
During a vacation to Costa Rica in 2018, then ten-year-old Moitri Santra saw that the waters seemed red and brown. Although she didn’t know at the time, she was looking at Red Tide, one of the many harmful algae blooms that release toxins which are fatal to...
(July 22, 2023) In a remarkable display of scientific brilliance, six young innovators of Indian American heritage have emerged as shining stars among the USA’s brightest in the prestigious 3M Young Scientist Challenge. These ingenious middle school students...
(January 25, 2023) When Sritej Padmanabhan’s grandfather visited the family in the US, the teenager encountered, for the first time, the devastation caused by Parkinson’s disease. A year later, at the age of 13, the North Allegheny student created an...
(February 19, 2023) For someone who found her inspiration in Marie Curie, Texas-based Anika Chebrolu was always interested in science. It was in fifth grade that she first learnt about the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, and it made her interested in “drug discovery,...
