At 82, Tony Fahey is attempting something that sounds almost impossible, travelling across water using a machine designed to mimic the motion of walking. The British man has built a human-powered watercraft called the “aqua elliptica” for a 24-hour charity challenge, with the goal of raising money for Make-A-Wish UK. According to Make-A-Wish UK, Fahey…
Audrey Zheng (North Allegheny Senior High School, Pittsburgh, PA) A 17-year-old student from Pennsylvania has developed an innovative bioengineering method to detect early-stage pancreatic cancer from blood samples, tackling one of the biggest challenges in cancer diagnosis. Audrey Zheng, a senior at North Allegheny Senior High School in Wexford, developed a technique that uses tiny…
A California Home that Rotates 320 Degrees Takes a Spin on the Market In 1963, a California builder constructed a circular home that can turn 320 degrees using two washing machine motors. Sixty-three years later, the unusual property overlooking Highway 101 in Novato is on the market for the first time, reports the Wall Street…
The latest collapse comes after a series of deadly mining accidents along the Central African Republic-Cameroon border. At least 100 people have been killed after a landslide struck an illegal gold mine in the Central African Republic near the border with Cameroon on Tuesday, with rescue teams continuing to search for survivors and victims at…
The destructions created by the 1872 Baltic sea flood in the area between Præstø and Faxe as depicted by Holger Drachmann as reporter for Illustreret Tidende. Image Credit: Holger Drachmann/Wikipedia More than a thousand ancient shipwrecks could still be lying beneath the Baltic Sea off the coast of Latvia, according to estimates cited by Latvian…
Natalie Muro (William J. Palmer High School Colorado Springs, CO) An 18-year-old student from Colorado Springs has developed a sustainable floating device that uses wind-driven wave energy and a local invasive weed to remove toxic algal blooms from freshwater lakes. Natalie Muro, a senior at William J. Palmer High School, tested her prototype in a…
Three members of a family died after getting into difficulty while swimming off the coast of Shoreham-by-Sea in West Sussex, while a young girl remains in critical condition in hospital, police said.Emergency services were called at around 2.40pm on Tuesday after reports of four people in difficulty in the water near Shoreham Fort, Sussex Police…
EasyJet will axe all flights from Leeds Bradford Airport from January 5, 2027/Image: Reuters EasyJet will stop operating all flights from Leeds Bradford Airport from January 5, 2027, ending its service from the UK airport after more than 16 years.The airline said it had reviewed its routes from the airport and decided not to operate…
PC: Guinness World Records At 14, Sheri Lynch was given a small grey hippopotamus plush by her best friend. She had no idea that the birthday present would still be part of her life more than four decades later, or that it would eventually sit alongside more than a thousand other hippo-themed objects. The US…
Quote of the day by John Cena (Image Credits: Instagram) Winning tells people plenty about what someone is capable of when everything is genuinely going their way. The considerably harder test tends to arrive later, once circumstances turn difficult and there is no obvious way out left available. John Cena, the American wrestler, actor and…
