Meet Claire Jiang, the 18-year-old New Jersey student diagnosed with juvenile arthritis in third grade who built a lab model of the disease; her research won $70,000

Meet Claire Jiang, the 18-year-old New Jersey student diagnosed with juvenile arthritis in third grade who built a lab model of the disease; her research won $70,000

Claire Jian, Bergen County Academies, Hackensack, NJ (Source: Society for Science) An 18-year-old student who was diagnosed with juvenile idiopathic arthritis in primary school has won seventh place and a $70,000 award in the 2026 Regeneron Science Talent Search for developing a new laboratory cell model of the disease. Claire Jiang, a senior at Bergen…

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Meet Meghana Addanki, the 17-year-old New Jersey student who turned eggshells and cotton into a tiny generator that harvests energy from movement

Meet Meghana Addanki, the 17-year-old New Jersey student who turned eggshells and cotton into a tiny generator that harvests energy from movement | World News

At 17, Meghana Addanki was looking at two materials that would rarely be associated with electricity: eggshell membrane and cotton. The New Jersey high school student used both in an experiment designed to turn ordinary movement into usable electrical energy, developing a small hybrid generator with the help of zinc oxide. Her project brought together…

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