#Science

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🧼🔬 14-year-old Heman Bekele developed a revolutionary soap that reactivates immune cells to fight skin , inspired by memories of people working under the harsh Ethiopian .

His costs just $0.50 to produce compared to $40,000 cancer treatments, and he's now working at Johns Hopkins to bring it to underserved communities worldwide.

https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/teenager-soap-cancer-rep/

Since the 1990s, scientists have known that chemical pollution causes frogs to be sex-reversed or intersex and believed that this is inherently harmful. But in 2019, environmental scientist Max Lambert and Melina Packer, a social scientist, collaborated on investigating the subject through a queer feminist lens, challenging assumptions about masculine and feminine behaviors and the "wrongness" of supposedly "feminized" males. In an extract from a new book, "Feminism in the Wild," reproduced in MIT's The Reader, Packer and her co-author Ambika Kamath explain how this approach led to new discoveries.

https://flip.it/oTltQC

Two where the underlying ΛCDM cosmology is the same, the large-scale cosmic web also forms and evolves in the same way, but the big difference is in the distribution of magnetic fields (green color in the RGB composition):
- the left model has a primordial magnetic field compressed and amplified in halos;
- the right one has only magnetic fields ejected by galaxies and their active galactic nuclei.
All simulated with the ENZO cosmological code

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2x Through 5 Oct ( x ) in ”$27 to $103. Lauren Gunderson’s female-led science tells the true story of 19th century as she explores a woman’s place in society during a time of immense scientific discoveries. With music and , Henrietta and her female peers change the way we understand both the heavens and the Earth.” https://www.centralsquaretheater.org/shows/silent-sky/