38,465 real projects from ISEF, the Canada-Wide Science Fair, JSHS, AJAS, the Calgary Youth Science Fair and the California Science & Engineering Fair — searchable by meaning, and filterable by fair, year, category and award.
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy
With the rise in quantum computing’s potential to break current encryption schemes, new methods of data encryption are needed to keep messages secure. Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) presents…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy First Award
Astigmatism is a cylindrical imperfection of the optical system of the eye that normally should be spherical. The optometry of astigmatism, so-called subjective refraction, involves multiple…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy
Microplastics are exponentially increasing worldwide, causing destructive impacts on marine life and humans. The existing approaches to overcome this crisis may involve using natural or arti…
AJAS · 2022
Physics
A defining, yet complicated aspect of tennis is the spin. It was evident that spin greatly alters trajectory after impact, but spin had also been identified to affect aerodynamics in flight.…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy
Homemade sugar rockets are a simple, cost-effective way of making small-scale rocket motors. The most common way people go about making these rockets is by mixing potassium nitrate with powd…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy
The purpose of this experiment was to delve into the realm of laminar flow, a subject related to aerodynamics, which interested us both as a topic of study. The problem raised was how differ…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy
As a world cultural heritage, the art of Chinese brush calligraphy is elegant and beautiful. However, many existing researches on it mainly stay in artistic creation. In order to explore the…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy
The dimple effect is a phenomenon that occurs when divots, or dimples, on an object create a turbulent boundary of air over the object leading to air moving further across the object, loweri…
AJAS · 2022
Physics
The global water crisis is a well-documented fact. It affects all regions and demographics. Atmospheric water harvesters (AWHs) have not been explored well as an option for freshwater. An es…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy
The purpose of this experiment is to determine the effects of cymatics on an artificial auditorial-impaired-hearing individuals’ ability to learn music. The experimenter hypothesized that Cy…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy
Transfer of data and information through computational systems is oftentimes unsecure. Confidential information and private knowledge from a source to a destination runs the risk of being ob…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy
Amidst potential climate change conclusions and solutions, there are stellar influences on Earth’s climate called cosmic rays, which heavily impact the formation of clouds; therefore, they a…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy Second Award
The identity and behavior of the invisible dark matter, which constitutes most of the mass in the universe, is a central yet unresolved question at both the cosmological and quantum scales.…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy
The globular cluster (GC) specific frequency (S_N) is a fundamental property representing the relationship between the globular cluster systems and their host galaxies. It is defined as the…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy Second Award
There is no general closed-form solution for the long-term dynamics of stars in systems where three or more stars are orbiting each other. When considering only the effects of Newtonian grav…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy
The question of the existence of extraterrestrial life has been a long-standing aspiration of humanity. Studying the physical, geological, and chemical conditions of exoplanets will advance…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
Loading a trailer improperly may cause dangerous sway, resulting in accidents and possible death. I researched and tested how to most safely haul a trailer to reduce sway. I focused on two m…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy
Within the centers of about 3% of galaxies, there is luminous emission at 22 GHz originating in Microwaves Amplified by Stimulated Emission of Radiation (masers) from water molecules. Some o…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy First Award
Transistors themselves have not fundamentally changed in decades, with all advances in the field focused on merely decreasing the size of transistors. This is a problem as soon it will be im…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy
Secondary particles, such as neutrons generated from galactic cosmic rays (high energy particles which traverse the galaxy) slamming into a spacecraft, increase the radiation doses from neut…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
Previously, the motion of tops has been studied on flat surfaces with either pointed or rounded bases. These models, though intuitive, have limited applications and cannot describe the motio…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy
Refractive index of a liquid specifies its temperature. Here, I turn a real laser spot into a line light-source to probe the temperature variations along the incident line in a liquid comple…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy
In some schools, students learn about the Equation of Time in Earth science class. However, it is hard to understand the Equation of time clearly. So, we decided to design and make learning…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy
Rovers play the main role in exploring and collecting physical samples from celestial bodies like planets and moons. ARW comes to strengthen and enable rovers to complete harder missions of…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy
By using orbital period, spectrophotometry, and bayesian inferential tests, we examined the orbital periods and photometry of one exoplanet in the HD star system: 189733 b. Through the const…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy
In order to conveniently simulate hamiltonian systems, I have developed online software that can simulate hamiltonian mechanics. Users can see the motion of a system as long as he tells the…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy
The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) accelerates heavy ions through electromagnetic fields to relativistic speeds in order to observe the conditions at the beginning of the Universe. T…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy
The purpose of this study was to determine the optimal drafting formations for reducing the aerodynamic drag experienced by a group of cross country skiers. Previous studies on cycling and r…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
Studying star clusters within the Milky Way is crucial to gaining a deeper understanding of the universe. Star clusters need to constantly be analyzed and cataloged, so changes regarding ste…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy
A new model has been developed to prove that elementary particles are not point-like, but inner-structured. In particle accelerators, it was found that elementary particles like quarks are d…