12-year-old Ahmed Abdelsalam created energy-harvesting system A 12-year-old student from Cambridge, Massachusetts, has developed a technology that could help find new ways to generate cleaner energy by capturing power from everyday movement.Ahmed Abdelsalam, a sixth-grade student at Darby Vassall Upper School, created VERDA, a system that harvests energy from sources including walking.Ahmed’s project has earned…

Nearly seven miles beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean lies a place so hostile that only a handful of human beings in all of history have ever seen it. Total darkness, near-freezing water, and pressure equivalent to a jet’s weight bearing down on a single postage stamp define this world. According to Guinness World…

The researchers at the Shapotou Desert Experimental Research Station in China have developed a revolutionary approach for reversing desertification and converting barren, shifting sand into productive land within only 10 months. Using cyanobacteria, which are specialised, photosynthetic microorganisms, the researchers have created biological soil crusts that form a living layer on the surface of the…