Meet Miles Wu, the 14-year-old New York student using origami to explore stronger, foldable emergency shelters |

Image: Society for Science At 14, Miles Wu is exploring how an ancient paper-folding technique could inspire stronger and more portable structures for emergencies. An eighth-grade student at Hunter College High School in New York, Wu spent the past year investigating the Miura-ori, a geometric origami pattern known for folding flat sheets into compact forms. […]

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14-year-old Dineth Fernando moved to Australia seven months ago and studied 200 Scrabble words a day; recently he became world youth Scrabble champion

Fernando learnt to play Scrabble at school when he was eight. His passion for the game grew quickly and he competed in the Sri Lankan national championships in 2022 and 2024. Hard work takes you a long way and 14-year-old Dineth Fernando has already found that 200 words a day can take you very far. […]

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