🧲 She didn't use a membrane. She used magnets.
Mia Heller, 18, built the system in her garage in 2025. The mechanism: ferrofluid bonds to microplastic particles as water flows through. A magnetic field pulls the entire mixture out. The ferrofluid gets recovered and reused.
Result: 95.52% of microplastics removed. Standard municipal treatment plants remove 70 to 90 percent.
A 2025 University of New Mexico study found microplastic concentrations in human brain tissue rose 50 percent in less than a decade.
She built a better answer in a garage.
Reference :-Smithsonian Magazine March 2026, Regeneron ISEF 2025, University of New Mexico microplastics study 2025
I can’t believe I forgot the FOUNDER of the Young Avengers!
Nate Richards is also confirmed queer! Though a specific label hasn’t been given, to my knowledge.
& a correction: Loki is actually BI and genderfluid! Being pan was a problematic retcon attempt, so is usually ignored.
There should be an exploration of mutant mages and
how their mutation affects their magic and viceversa
for example: for Wanda and Ororo it seems their magic and mutant powers amplify eachother as they give them power over similar aspects(chaos/probability and elemental/weather)