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ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
As the third largest coral barrier reef system in the world, the Florida Keys is home to thousands of marine life species and faces a myriad of threats resulting in a 90% decline in healthy…
ISEF · 2024
Translational Medical Science Second Award
Elderly populations are at an increasing risk of dementia, and accessibility to status-quo diagnosis tools is a significant issue, as proposed by the substantial rates of undiagnosed cases.…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Industrial Reverse Osmosis (“RO”) provides safe drinking water to homes and is supplied by ocean water. As such, the quantity of waste water produced by this method is inconsequential. Notab…
ISEF · 2024
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Second Award
Over 130,000 aging steel bridges in the United States are at risk from corrosion and structural issues. More efficient and thorough inspection methods are necessary to avoid future disasters…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Globally, over 2 billion people lack access to safe drinking water leading to 3.4 million waterborne deaths yearly. Existing purification methods are often ineffective against both biologica…
ISEF · 2024
Mathematics Second Award
The rise of modern cryptosystems introduced the problem of modular exponentiation. Modular exponentiation is the problem of computing a perfect power a^n modulo some modulus, say m. This pro…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Surges in Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) due to fallouts of anthropogenic activities and climate change are recurrently impairing water quality. Biodiverse ecosystems like the Indian River Lago…
ISEF · 2024
Plant Sciences Second Award
A child dies from hunger every 10 seconds due to the rising global crisis in food accessibility, security, and sustainability. Therefore, the need for a sustainable food source is becoming m…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Second Award
Green hydrogen is a renewable fuel and is considered one of the most promising alternatives to fossil fuels; however, commercialized production is hampered due to the high production cost an…
ISEF · 2024
Behavioral and Social Sciences Second Award
Dyslexia, a neurodevelopmental disorder affecting up to 20% of the global population, presents unique challenges for Arabic speakers due to the language's distinctive properties. The scarcit…
ISEF · 2024
Systems Software Second Award
According to the World Health Organization, nearly 300 million people worldwide suffer from visual impairments, a number which is only expected to grow in the coming years. In the U.S. alone…
ISEF · 2024
Cellular and Molecular Biology Second Award
Age-related metabolic disorders often result from the dysfunction in adipose tissue, which is responsible for energy storage and mobilization. Formation of the adipose tissue or adipogenesis…
ISEF · 2024
Mathematics Second Award
Classification tasks in machine learning, essential for applications ranging from fraud detection to medical diagnoses, frequently encounter the challenge of imbalanced datasets. These imbal…
ISEF · 2024
Animal Sciences Second Award
Drought stress, one of the most critical factors affecting leading to the decline of honey bee (Apis mellifera) populations worldwide, is regarded as a potential threat to species extinction…
ISEF · 2024
Microbiology Second Award
Fusarium is a genus of fungi that produces biofilms, a collection of microbial cells that confer high antifungal resistance to opportunistic Fusarium pathogens, which cause lethal infections…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Second Award
Airborne Wind Energy (AWE) poses uncertainty in its contribution to renewable energy due to the lack of a comprehensive design . The technology is in its early stages, requiring significant…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
To combat marine biotoxin contamination that threatens California’s $15-million shellfish industry, this research establishes the first California Marine Biotoxin Management System (CABMS),…
ISEF · 2024
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Second Award
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death in the United States. However, early detection can prevent up to 80% of associated fatalities. 12-lead Electrocardiograms (ECGs) ar…
ISEF · 2024
Physics and Astronomy Second Award
Every second in the universe an exciting event is occurring, whether it be the collision of two black holes or the death of a star in an explosive supernova. One such event is a Tidal Disrup…
ISEF · 2024
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Second Award
Conventionally, tumorigenesis is understood as a gradual accumulation of genetic mutations. Yet, chromoplexy rearrangements (ChRs) are a mutational phenomenon characterized by highly complex…
ISEF · 2024
Physics and Astronomy Second Award
The centennial Ising model, which was initially proposed to explain ferromagnetism and phase transitions, has become a central pillar of statistical physics and a powerful tool in diverse ap…
ISEF · 2024
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Second Award
In recent years, generative machine learning algorithms have been successful in designing innovative drug-like molecules. SMILES is a sequence-like language used in most effective drug desig…
ISEF · 2024
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Second Award
General purpose humanoid robots have long been envisioned for a plethora of applications such as disaster relief, industrial automation, agriculture, or elderly assistance. A humanoid form f…
ISEF · 2024
Translational Medical Science Second Award
Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is a prevalent autoimmune condition that affects 2.39 million Americans and is characterized by an excess of inflammatory cytokines. Interleukins, a class of…
ISEF · 2024
Translational Medical Science Second Award
Across neurological drug development, researchers struggle with the inability of most drugs to pass through the blood-brain barrier (BBB), due to the semipermeable membrane’s high selectivit…
ISEF · 2024
Chemistry Second Award
Cathepsin B in lysosome is a cysteine protease that plays an important role in various pathological processes including many cancers. Therefore, it is a cancer protein biomarker. A method to…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Environmental pollution, which is one of the main causes of global warming, may have variations within itself; however, water, which is at the point of all cycles in nature, a blanket coveri…
ISEF · 2024
Physics and Astronomy Second Award
The discovery of M51-ULS-1b, the only extragalactic planet orbiting an X-ray Source (XRS), unveiled a gap in our current understanding of planetary formation and evolution. How this planet f…
ISEF · 2024
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Second Award
Every year, six million people die from cardiac arrest in the world with 436,000 victims in the United States alone. This problem is made worse because, in many counties, more than 50% of pe…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
Oil spills continue to affect millions of families yearly. Significant research has gone into the development of both organic and inorganic solvents. However, the issue with these sorbents i…