{"id":120,"date":"2017-10-25T06:15:44","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T06:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/eng.dailyausaf.com\/?p=120"},"modified":"2017-10-25T06:15:44","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T06:15:44","slug":"young-scientist-invents-device-that-detects-lead-in-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/technology\/young-scientist-invents-device-that-detects-lead-in-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Young scientist invents device that detects lead in water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This 11-year-old girl is &#8220;America&#8217;s Top Young Scientist&#8221; with her invention of Tethys, a device that detects lead in water.<\/p>\n<p>Gitanjali Rao was affected by the Flint, Michigan water catastrophe when the city started using the Flint River for water in 2014, sparking a crisis that was linked to an outbreak of Legionnaires&#8217; disease, at least 12 deaths and dangerously high lead levels in children.<\/p>\n<p>The seventh-grader said it took her five months to make Tethys from start to finish. Rao won the 2017 Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge, along with a $25,000 prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This 11-year-old girl is &#8220;America&#8217;s Top Young Scientist&#8221; with her invention of Tethys, a device that detects lead in water. Gitanjali Rao was affected by the Flint, Michigan water catastrophe when the city started using the Flint River for water in 2014, sparking a crisis that was linked to an outbreak of Legionnaires&#8217; disease, at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}