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Winners of the Scientific American Innovators Award Turn Trash into Water Filters [Video]

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Winners of the Scientific American Innovators Award Turn Trash into Water Filters [Video]

World-changing ideas may just come from our youngest scientists. This year’s winners of the annual Google Science Fair—including the winners of the Scientific American Innovators Award—were announced this week at Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. The event is the largest online science fair in the world, and since its inception in 2011 more than 30,000 teenagers have submitted projects in almost every country.  Read more

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Quantum Short 2014 Film Contest Accepting Entries

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Quantum Short 2014 Film Contest Accepting Entries

When the 2008 Bond film came out with the title Quantum of Solace, science fans may have been hoping for a plot that hinged on quantum physics. Bond didn’t deliver, but there are some pretty great quantum-inspired movies out there. And soon there’ll be a few more.  Read more

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Childhood dreams become reality after young inventor scoops Science in Action Award

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Kenneth Shinozuka: "Struck by the power of technology to change lives."

Kenneth Shinozuka was six years old when he first found out his grandfather had Alzheimer’s disease. It was a bracing August morning and the police turned up at the door with his grandfather, dressed in nothing but his pyjamas. They found him two miles away, walking along the freeway. He had been walking through the night. That moment, back in 2005, would change his family forever.  Read more

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Winner of The Quantum Shorts 2013: The Knight of Infinity

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Timothy Yeo - CQT, National University of Singapore

Guest Post from Editor in Chief of Scientific American (part of Nature Publishing Group) Mariette DiChristina.  Read more

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