10 талановитих підлітків, яким під силу заткнути за пояс дорослих вчених
In movies and books, scientists usually look like a little crazy old men with a bunch of gray hair and a wandering look. However, in reality, young people are moving science forward and making inventions that are not dreamed of by venerable professors. What used to be fantastic, these guys and girls have already put into practice.
1. Kara Fan, 14: A rare nanosilver bandage that prevents inflammation
The 9th grader from California was named the “Best Young Scientist of America” for inventing a liquid spray bandage. During the complex chemical process, the girl synthesized a fluid that can completely replace antibacterial ointments.
Frequent use of antibiotics leads to infections becoming virtually invincible and medication inactive. Kara Fan’s liquid bandage solves this problem: the drug kills bacteria without the help of antibiotics. The spray includes lemon leaves and nanosilver.
2. Caroline Crouchley, 13: Vacuum train on magnetic pillow
The dad of the young inventor regularly goes by rail to work, so the girl thought about how to improve this slightly outdated mode of transport. Caroline studied the Ilona Mask Hyperloop (vacuum train) project and figured out how to make it cheaper and safer.
Caroline proposes to make tunnels parallel to the existing railroad tracks. Magnetic shuttle shuttles will go through the pipes, and the power will provide them with regular trains that will run nearby. This mode of transport requires neither diesel nor electricity, so the environmental benefit is a bonus to the invention.
3. Samyak Shrimali, 14: Sensory system for keeping hands clean in hospital
Samyak figured collected and wrote software for sensors that automatically monitor the purity of arms. This invention is important for health care facilities where hospital-acquired infections are life-threatening.
4. Adrian Fleck, 20, and Anna Amelie Fleck, 16: Protective Starch Material
Protection for hockey players, skates, footballers and other athletes is made of hard plastic. He, of course, protects from injuries, but strongly constrains movements.
Adrian and Anna Amelie have come up with how to use the properties of Newtonian fluid for sportswear. The creative siblings filled the silicone molds with liquid starch, which when hardened hardens and protects the body. Young people have already been interested in their discoveries by major manufacturers.
5. Danylo Kazantsev, 16: A device that interprets sign language
A student from Yekaterinburg at the Google Science Fair International Competition showed a device capable of translating sign language into words. The story of a single mother whose caregivers removed her children was inspired by the creation of the boy’s apparatus.
The woman has not heard or talked since childhood, and after the divorce from her husband, who helped her mother to communicate with her daughters, the girls were taken away from the family. In court, the mother also failed to protect herself due to the lack of qualified interpreters.
Danilo has developed an apparatus that determines the position of hands in space and translates sign language into written language. The young inventor, by the way, received one of the main prizes at the exhibition and a grant for training.
6. Celestin Venardi, 16 years, non-invasive blood glucose meter
Celestin is originally from Indonesia. According to WHO, diabetes in this country is a huge problem, and glucose meters (blood glucose meters) are sold at sky-high prices. The girl decided that she had the power to assemble a device that will determine the level of sugar without puncturing the skin and besides it will not cost too much.
The Celestin Glucose Meter will determine the sugar level by skin temperature and simultaneously illuminate the tissues using optical tomography technology. The accuracy of such analysis is 99%, and the cost of the device is $ 63.
7. Fionn Ferreira, 19: sewage treatment from microplastics
Microplastics (small particles of plastic) you will not see with the naked eye, but it pollutes the oceans. By the way, cosmetics companies use microplastics in scrubs and toothpastes. Cleaning systems cannot trap these particles, so plastic goes into rivers, oceans, soaks into the soil and poisons all living things.
Irish student Fionn Ferreira studied the experience of adult scientists and came up with a simple, surprising solution. Fionn suggested using a mixture of vegetable oil and iron oxide for wastewater treatment. They are inexpensive to use and do not pollute the environment.
8. Tania Speaks, 16: A tool to tame eyebrows
At school, classmates mocked Tania because of her unusual appearance: the girl had thick eyebrows over which the evil children joked. Tanya even got to the hospital when she tried to shave her eyebrows and cut herself hard.
But after experiencing trouble, the girl decided what to do: she tried a lot of cosmetics, which absolutely did not help. Then Tania came up with her formula of aloe and vitamin E.
Tania borrowed some money from her mother and launched her own line of tools to curb naughty eyebrows. TIME has included the girl in the list of the most influential teens of 2019.
9. Rishab Jain, 15: treatment for pancreatic cancer
When using radiation therapy for cancer patients and physicians it is important not to affect healthy cells. At age 13, Rishab invented a software tool to help physicians improve the effectiveness of therapy and not affect other organs.
10. Julia Gelfond, 13: Oral gel after tooth extraction
One day, Julia did not feel the best emotion in the dentist’s chair: “I had to pull out 4 teeth, and I had these huge holes in my mouth that were annoyingly irritating”. With the support of her father, the girl decided to create a gel that would fill the holes after tooth extraction, disinfect and relieve pain. As a result of Julia’s experiments, a hydrogel was obtained based on sodium alginate and calcium lactate.
Source: adme.ru, @fionn.ferreira, @tania.speaks
