An eight-year-old boy in Indiana has received recognition from a volunteer fire department after noticing a smoking camper trailer and alerting people nearby, helping ensure firefighters were called before the situation became more serious. According to local broadcaster Eagle Country 99.3 and the Blooming Grove Volunteer Fire Department, Carter Hicks was presented with a department…

Kaumera as a bio-based ingredient in a brick made from dredged sediment. Image Credit: Kaumera/Official Website Rotterdam’s waterways require constant dredging to keep the port’s channels and basins navigable, producing millions of cubic metres of sediment each year. Much of this material is currently disposed offshore, but a new research project is exploring a different…

Left/ESRF/Right/Overall anterolateral view of the skull of the coelacanth foetus imaged on beamline ID19. The brain is in yellow. Credit: H. Dutel et al.​ In 2019, scientists unveiled the first observations of how the skull and brain develop in the living coelacanth, Latimeria chalumnae, a deep-sea fish once thought extinct for seventy million years. A…

Raccoons have long been credited with outwitting latches, and a study has tested that reputation. University of British Columbia researchers Hannah Griebling and Dr Sarah Benson-Amram gave captive raccoons a custom puzzle box with nine entry points, grouped as easy, medium and hard. Each 20-minute trial held a single marshmallow; the raccoons often kept opening…

Representative Image of hydrogels, charcoal briquettes, and the Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge logo in a collage (AI Generated Image) Twin eighth-graders from Riverside, California, have tested nine hydrogels in a project exploring whether a sprayable gel could help stop burned areas from reigniting after a wildfire. Brothers Henry and Jack Grover, students at…

Wall contractors in San Ygnacio, Texas (PC: Elsa Hull) Currently, there’s a battle going on in a small Texas town along the US-Mexico border. Now this particular land battle has also brought a forgotten chapter of history back to life. In 1951, residents of San Ygnacio successfully persuaded the US government to spare their community…