Heman Bekele was inspired by Ethiopian workers laboring under the sun, and wanted to help ‘as many people as possible’

A middle-school teen has been named “America’s top young scientist” after developing a bar of soap that could be useful in the treatment of melanoma, a skin cancer that is diagnosed in about 100,000 people in the US each year and kills approximately 8,000.

  • @grabyourmotherskeys
    link
    English
    711 months ago

    When I was 14, I was not helping to cure cancer. My science fair project was about salt raising the boiling point of water. :) I’ll give him props but you’re right.

    • @garbagebagel
      link
      English
      211 months ago

      Were your tests conclusive?

      I did mine on whether brown eggs would boil faster than white.

      • @grabyourmotherskeys
        link
        English
        111 months ago

        I did conclude the boiling point was raised. I was up for a Nobel prize in chemistry but was excluded because of my political leanings.