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In 2022, scientists unveiled a wind-turbine material that could be recycled into gummy-bear ingredients. Four years later, where did the idea go? (opens the original)
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In August 2022, John Dorgan, a professor of chemical engineering and materials science at Michigan State University, stood in front of colleagues at the American Chemical Society’s fall national meeting in Chicago and ate a gummy bear made from a wind turbine blade. The presentation, titled “Composite resins for the circular economy: From wind turbines to gummy bear candy and beyond,” was a conference talk backed by a university press release, not a peer-reviewed journal paper — and it detonated
A 16-year-old from Wrentham, Massachusetts, built a desktop plastic recycler that runs roughly 45% more efficiently than comparable home machines, and in 2025 the invention won him a $75,000 Regeneron Young Scientist Award (opens the original)
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Benjamin Davis, a 16-year-old sophomore at Bishop Feehan High School in Attleboro, Massachusetts, spent much of the past two school years building a machine in his family’s home in Wrentham that turns plastic waste into fresh filament for 3D printers. In May 2025, the project carried him to the 75th Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair in Columbus, Ohio, where he became the first Bishop Feehan student to win a national ISEF award. Davis entered a project titled “Pultrusion and Ex
An 18-year-old built a thermal-sensing system for under $130 and reported that it tracked ICU patient positions with over 99 percent accuracy across more than 150 hours of testing—a promising result from a student prototype, not yet a clinical benchmark (opens the original)
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Maya Trutschl was still a senior at Caddo Parish Magnet High School in Shreveport, Louisiana, when she built a patient-monitoring system for less than $130 in parts: a thermal-sensing camera paired with machine-learning software meant to track how a bedridden patient is positioned and to flag when their skin is at risk of breaking down. She didn’t stop at a science-fair table. She took the device into a hospital intensive care unit and ran it against real patients for more than 150 hours. That c
At a solar site in Lancaster, California, more than 1,300 battery packs pulled out of retired Nissan and Honda cars sit wired together as 28 megawatt-hours of grid storage, the largest of a growing portfolio that includes sites in California and Texas (opens the original)
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On a stretch of flat desert floor outside Lancaster, California, rows of white steel cabinets sit beside a solar array. Inside those cabinets are more than 1,300 lithium-ion battery packs, each one retired from a car whose battery had simply fallen below the range or performance its original owner needed. Together they store 28 megawatt-hours of electricity — enough to power thousands of homes for several hours — and they do it using hardware that Nissan and Honda originally built to move people
Tidying a room is often described as a small war against the second law of thermodynamics, but a house is not an isolated system and the physics says something narrower and stranger: local order is always available, and always has to be paid for somewhere else (opens the original)
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On the counter in my kitchen there is a bottle of oil and vinegar that has separated into two clean bands, the vinegar underneath, the oil sitting above it, the boundary between them almost suspiciously flat. It looks like the tidiest object in the room. It is also at maximum entropy. Shake it, and the entropy goes down. Leave it alone, and the second law of thermodynamics carefully, patiently, puts it back into two neat layers. That example is not mine. It belongs to the physicist Dan Styer, wh
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