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TIBOOBURRA, Australia. A prospector who asked to keep his name out of the papers nearly walked past the find of a lifetime in mid-October. His metal detector chirped faintly on Mount Stuart station near Tibooburra, in the far northwestern corner of New South Wales, and roughly 100 millimeters down the machine began squealing. Out of the red dirt came a 1,218-gram, quartz-flecked nugget he...

ALTAMIRA, Mexico. A 16-year-old student from this Gulf Coast city in Tamaulipas has turned a physics curiosity into international gold. Ángela Karime Hernández Venegas won the gold medal at the International Science and Invention Fair 2026 in Indonesia for Vortex Tech, a portable prototype that snuffs out small flames with low-frequency sound waves. No water, no foam, no chemical powder. The device is deliberately simple....