Meet Natalie Muro, the 18-year-old Colorado student who used wind-driven waves and an invasive plant to fight toxic algal blooms in a real reservoir

Natalie Muro (William J. Palmer High School Colorado Springs, CO) An 18-year-old student from Colorado Springs has developed a sustainable floating device that uses wind-driven wave energy and a local invasive weed to remove toxic algal blooms from freshwater lakes. Natalie Muro, a senior at William J. Palmer High School, tested her prototype in a…

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Govt announces panchayat poll process in Ladakh to fill ‘democratic vacuum’, district council polls next | India News

Panchayat poll process in Ladakh announced SRINAGAR: A day after a meeting between Ladakh representatives and officials of ministry of home affairs, the Ladakh administration Thursday announced that the govt was taking steps to address the democratic vacuum in the Union Territory and, to begin with, it would recommend to the Election Commission to initiate…

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Olympian Shivpal Singh handed 10-year doping ban after second offence, career in jeopardy | More sports News

NEW DELHI: Former Asian silver medallist and Tokyo Olympian Shivpal Singh has been handed a 10-year suspension by the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) Disciplinary Panel after testing positive for the banned anabolic steroid methandienone in what has been deemed his second doping offence.The 31-year-old javelin thrower’s career now faces a major setback, with the length…

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In 1978, just 10 to 15 cane toads were moved to Ishigaki Island. Decades later, their population increased to 20,000 with surprising evolutionary change |

On Ishigaki Island, cane toads have been living in conditions quite different from those faced by the populations from which they came. The island is warm, wet and separated from mainland habitats, and the animals introduced there in the late 1970s have now had several decades to establish themselves. When scientists compared these Japanese toads…

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