{
  "id": 9689677,
  "title": "How these UAE students turn discarded chicken feathers into plant boosters",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/25/how-these-uae-students-turn-discarded-chicken-feathers-into-plant",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-25T02:59:36.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Gulf News",
    "slug": "gulf-news",
    "url": "https://gulfnews.com/uae/people/how-these-uae-students-turn-discarded-chicken-feathers-into-plant-boosters-1.500687175"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Dubai: Chicken feathers are usually something most people throw away without a second thought. But for three UAE high school students, they became the starting point for an experiment in turning waste into a potential agricultural resource. Adit Mital, Anushka Harlalka, and Maanit Misra, Year 13 students behind BioFeathers, have developed a fermentation-based process that uses bacteria to break…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}