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2021, Canada, Environment / 19.07.2021

Methane produced from animal waste impacts global warming 21 times more than CO2. Globally, around 570 million tons of methane is released and wasted annually. This energy source can be harnessed to produce renewable, sustainable energy. This experiment aimed to optimize anaerobic digestion by (i) comparing biogas production from ruminant vs. monogastric manure and (ii) observing whether adding spent mushroom...

2021, Canada, Medicine / 19.07.2021

There are over 240 million cases of preventable blindness globally. Many eye diseases are “silent-killers” of vision and current testing methods are often inaccessible for marginalized patients. Thus, diseases go undetected until it is too late. To combat this issue, I developed Speculor combining low-cost portable retinal imagers and smartphones with artificial intelligence algorithms. Imagers have been tested in a...