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This Theoretical Physicist Boldly Goes Where Few Black Women Have Gone Before In her new book, Harvard-educated Professor Chanda Prescod-Weinstein shares her vision of the cosmos and breaks down the sexism and racism inherent in science. By S.C. Stuart Feb. 18, 2021, 7:57 p.m. Milky Way from the Atacama desert (Alberto Ghizzi Panizza/REDA&CO/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein spends a good amount of her research time untangling spacetime and seeking ...

New system distinguishes suspicious pigmented lesions from non-suspicious ones Melanoma is by far the deadliest form of skin cancer, killing more than 7,000 people in the United States in 2019 alone. Early detection of the disease dramatically reduces the risk of death and the costs of treatment, but widespread melanoma screening is not currently feasible. There are about 12,000 practicing dermatologists in the US, and they would each need to see 27,416 patients per year to screen the entire po...