An editor from the United Kingdom has taken on the mammoth task of publishing a Wikipedia biography for at least one woman from every country. Lucy Moore noticed there was a lack of female representation on the encyclopaedic website and saw that only 19.76% of biographies were about women. To address this, Moore set out to profile 532 women who were doing extraordinary things all over the world and who needed to be better known. This came in time for International Women’s Day this week. The profiled women included an Afghani women’s rights activist, a Chadian poet and artist, and a Belgian painter.
EDF launched its methane satellite to identify sources of methane in an effort to identify and hold companies accountable for their greenhouse gas emissions. Emitting 16% of all emissions, methane is 30 times stronger than CO2 and escapes into the atmosphere from leaks in oil wells. This satellite could pave the way for reducing emissions. The EDF considers launching MethaneSat as a “revolution”.
A Cancer Research UK-funded study found that prostate cancer is not a single disease. It has two subtypes which an international team, headed by the University of Oxford and the University of Manchester, have found using artificial intelligence and DNA data. It is hoped that this will aid in diagnosis and treatment. Prostate cancer affects one in eight men, and the research team thinks this is “the beginning of us being able to take the same ‘divide and conquer’ approach to prostate cancer that has worked in other diseases, such as breast cancer”.
Finally, Arizona has become the most recent US State to cancel the medical debt of its poorer residents. Around one million citizens are expected to have their health debt wiped out due to a government partnership with RIP Medical Debt, which uses private donor funds to help buy up and pay off individual’s health bills. The non-profit group has already pardoned $8.5bn (£7bn) of medical bills for 5.5 million US families. Arizona’s program will eradicate medical debt worth around $2bn (£1.57bn)
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