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Teen built $12 ocean-current probe and won America's top young scientist prize
Hannah Herbst won the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge in October 2015, at the age of 15, with a propeller generator that turned the movement of water in the Boca Raton Intracoastal Waterway into enough electricity to light a set of LEDs.
By Justin Brown · Oct 18, 2026
Light bulb that has burned since 1901 has outlasted three webcams watching it
Sep 25, 2026
The world's first webcam spent a decade watching a coffee pot in a Cambridge lab
Sep 24, 2026
Cheese brine waste becomes Wisconsin's secret weapon against icy roads
Sep 24, 2026
17-year-old built a $100 earthquake detector that warns LA seconds before shaking hits
By Ainura Kalau · Sep 24, 2026
Concrete made with crushed glass bottles gets stronger than normal, slower to peak
By Ainura Kalau · Sep 24, 2026
Arizona's rubber highway coating cuts freeway noise by 11 decibels
By Ainura Kalau · Sep 23, 2026
Researchers secretly put GPS trackers inside 205 old printers and monitors to see where America’s electronic waste really went
Sep 23, 2026
Teen's plastic recycler runs 45% more efficiently than rival home machines
Sep 22, 2026
12-year-old builds working Braille printer from $350 Lego kit
By Justin Brown · Sep 22, 2026
Teen invents dissolvable tags that could transform plastic recycling
By Ainura Kalau · Sep 22, 2026
DNA molecules competed to solve a 100-bit computation in a salt water droplet
Sep 22, 2026