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14 Year Old Invents Skin Cancer Treating Soap

14 year old Heman Bekele won the America's Top Scientist competition by inventing a soap that can be used to treat skin cancer, which contains compounds that could reactivate dendritic cells to protect the skin.

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Brain Plasticity & Learning

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Big Think published an explainer about how the plasticity of the brain can impact on learning, and how repetition can cause structural changes in the brain to make learning easier.

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Detecting How Gravity Influences Antimatter

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Scientists at CERN developed an experiment to test if gravity influences anti-matter in the same manner as with matter. The elaborate technical experiment found, using lots of magnets, that anti-matter is indeed influenced by gravity.

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Oasis ADHD Visor

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University of Limerick graduate Joël Olympio was named the national winner of the James Dyson Award in Ireland for his Oasis visor, which is designed to reduce visual distractions for ADHD sufferers using a film that dims the wearer's mid-to-far peripheral vision

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Plastic Eating Bacteria

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Researchers at North Carolina State University have engineered new bacteria that can break down Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic while in saltwater.

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Crows Use Statistical Inference

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Dr. Melissa Johnston of the University of Tübingen trained crows to test and show how they use statistical inference to select images based on the probability of receiving a treat from experience. The crows got it right every time, even when tested a month later.

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How To Tackle The Myopia Epidemic

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Amit Katwala published a riveting story in WIRED about how the myopia epidemic in Taiwan and how researchers and practitioners discovered the causes of myopia, which is lack of sustained sunlight, and developed a preventative regime for children.

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Filtering Microplastics

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Futurism describes how researchers in Canada have discovered sawdust coating in fruit tannins can filter 95.2% to 99.95 of microplastics from water.

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3D Printing Metal At Room Temperature

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Scientists at North Carolina State University have developed a metal gel that can be used in 3D printers. After printing, the gel hardens when water and hydrochloric acid in the gel evaporates, producing a rigid metal structure.

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Packing Algorithm

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Researchers at MIT have developed a faster packing algorithm that is the first to utilises Fast Fourier Transform to calculate the optimal placement of objects within a space and achieves close to 40% packing density.

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