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Sixteen Indian American students have been selected as finalists in the Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge, a prestigious middle school STEM competition. The finalists were chosen from a pool of 300 Junior Innovators and will compete for over $100,000 in awards, including the top prize of $25,000.

Based on the coupling effects of contact electrification and electrostatic induction, a triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) can convert mechanical energy into electric power, which is at the cutting edge of alternative energy technology. Although a considerable number of TENGs with different configurations have been designed, some of them however, which only depend on the electrostatic induction effect have not received enough attention. Here, a non-contact TENG model consists of copper rings and...

Pi love you! Hand-written maths lessons that Dambusters bouncing bomb inventor Barnes Wallis used to woo his 17-year-old wife who was HALF his age are set to sell for £2,000 The celebrated World War Two hero fell in love with his much younger cousin Molly Bloxham in the 1920s Her father felt it was inappropriate for her senior suitor, almost 20 years older, to be writing to the teenager But he did allow her to correspond provided he taught her mathematics, which she was studying at college Som...