At the 2026 Regeneron ISEF competition, teens showed how they blasted past a problem that has limited use of super-efficient aerospike rocket engines.
Scientists are testing whether plastic pollution from the ocean can be transformed into safe and durable highways.
Methanol is used in plastics, paints and as a race car fuel. It’s been hard to make. But engineers have found a simple trick: Add lightning to methane.
Special pockets in these molecular structures make them useful in medicine, climate science and more.
An AI-made picture of an animal or flower might seem harmless, but fake images of people or events can spread misinformation.
Players often upload pictures of landmarks. AI can use these to build a virtual 3-D model of a city, which robots might use like a map to navigate the real thing.
Sometimes good chatbots and AI agents go rogue. A Regeneron ISEF finalist’s new app helps guard against bots developing dangerous personalities.
The top three winners each won at least $80,000. Other teen finalists shared in more than $7 million in prizes at this international science fair.
The meal plans that AI made for fictional teens cut an entire meal’s worth of calories per day.
