Student, 12, wins $25,000 Samueli Foundation Prize prize for optical illusion project

Typical school science fair projects include a soda volcano, graphite circuit or a potato battery, but one 12-year-old from New York went beyond with a project that uses an optical illusion to understand our cognitive process. Ishana Kumar, from Chappaqua, submitted the project – called Color Is in the Eye of the Beholder: The Role … Read more

The future of beauty is here: Selfies to sort your perfect foundation and infrared hair scanners

The idea that robots could play a role in our everyday lives and even help solve all our beauty dilemmas — from getting the right shade of foundation to ensuring our skincare regime is just what the doctor ordered — might sound far-fetched. But machine learning — or artificial intelligence (AI) — is already behind … Read more

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle launch the Archewell Foundation website

Archewell is live! Meghan Markle and Prince Harry launch homepage for foundation set up in honour of their son that will promote ‘humane tech’ Duke and Duchess of Sussex have launched the Archewell foundation website By Stephanie Linning For Mailonline Published: 15:22 BST, 21 October 2020 | Updated: 15:25 BST, 21 October 2020 The Duke … Read more

Prince William and Kate Middleton appoint Zeinab Badawi as Royal Foundation director

Prince William and Kate Middleton hire BBC broadcaster Zeinab Badawi as a director of the Royal Foundation after the Duke’s former private secretary steps down as a trustee Prince William and Kate Middleton, both 38, have hired new director for charity  Duke and Duchess of Cambridge appointed  Zeinab Badawi for Royal Foundation The Sudanese-British broadcaster, 61, … Read more

British maths genius wins £2.3m prize from Mark Zuckerberg’s foundation

British genius wins £2.3m prize for working out the maths involved in stirring a cup of tea with work so clever that ‘it must have been sent to him by aliens’ Martin Hairer, from Imperial College London, won Breakthrough prize for maths The Austrian-British researcher, 44, had been working on his stochastic analysis The field … Read more

Captain Sir Tom Moore gives rousing speech to 300 junior soldiers at Army Foundation College 

Captain Sir Tom Moore has told junior soldiers passing out of their basic training that the ‘world is an oyster and yours to go and open’. The 100-year-old Second World War veteran took the salute as almost 300 teenagers graduated from the Army Foundation College in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. Sir Tom was made honorary colonel … Read more

Stormzy’s Merky Foundation pledges £500,000 to fund further or higher education for young people

Stormzy’s charitable organisation – the #Merky Foundation – has pledged £500,000 to fund further or higher education for young people from underprivileged backgrounds. The pledge is part of the #Merky Foundation’s £10 million fund to tackle racial inequality and injustice, which was announced in June. The Black Heart Foundation’s Each Day. Every Day campaign will be the … Read more

Beauty enthusiast shares handy hack for reaching the remnants of your near-empty foundation bottle

Every drop counts! Beauty enthusiast shares handy hack for reaching the remnants of your near-empty foundation bottle (and all you need is hot water and a spare container) Rose Brookes, from Tipton, shared clever tip to empty bottle of foundation Many makeup enthusiasts get frustrated when can’t use entirety of the product  Rose said to fill … Read more

The Markle Windsor Foundation? Harry and Meghan may have let slip new venture’s name in ‘MWX’ filing

Harry and Meghan may have let slip the name of their new venture, after papers shutting down their Sussex Royal charity revealed a new identity of the MWX Foundation. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex agreed to stop using their ‘Sussex Royal’ brand after announcing they were to step back from their regal duties. It … Read more

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle formally shut down the Sussex Royal Foundation

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle formally shut down the Sussex Royal Foundation as they focus on new charity Archewell in the US Documents filed at Companies House confirm they are winding up the company The couple announced they were launching new charity Archewell back in April The move to dissolve the Foundation follows the Queen’s decision … Read more