30-second cellphone recharge technology developed by high school student

There was a time when high school science projects involved baking soda volcanoes dropping egg-filled containers from helicopters. That may actually still be the case, but not for a batch of 1,600 high school students at this year’s 2013 Intel International Science. 18-year-old Eesha Khare developed a super-capacitor with a special nano-structure that allows more… Continue reading 30-second cellphone recharge technology developed by high school student

Voted most likely to live long and prosper

A thespian from the time he was 8, Leonard Nimoy would go on to become one of the most iconic characters in science fiction both on television and the big screen. He spent his high school years at Boston’s English High School and acted throughout before attending Boston College. Before becoming the ever-logical Spock, his… Continue reading Voted most likely to live long and prosper