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By Lillienne Zen on 03 Oct 2016
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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By Alex Jackson on 12 Aug 2014
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
Posted in Events, Featured, Science communication and outreach, Science education, Scientific American | Tagged Communities Happenings, google science fair, science in action, scientific american