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This year's Google Science Fair winner talks about how she's helping doctors detect breast cancer less invasively and why more girls don't go into computer science
Stories by Anna Kuchment
Anna Kuchment is a contributing editor at Scientific American and a staff science reporter at the Dallas Morning News. She is also co-author of a forthcoming book about earthquakes triggered by energy production.
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