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 · 2021
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
Neutral hydrogen is abundant in the Milky Way, making its radio emissions at 1420 MHz a key tool for mapping the distribution of matter within the Galaxy. Because the center of the Galactic…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy
Current rocket trajectories to Mars take nine months and follow the Hohmann Transfer. This project calculates a linear trajectory from Earth to Mars with effective negative mass as its propu…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy
Antibubbles are water droplets covered with a thin film of air. It can be made by dropping a liquid into a dilute soap solution by using dropper. The generated antibubbles sink into the wate…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy
Have you ever seen supernumerary rainbow? This is observed a little inside a main rainbow under some rare weather condition. When rainbows are seen in nature, the size of the water droplets…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy
A better understanding of space weather phenomena, such as coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and the solar wind, requires greater knowledge of the coronal magnetic structure. Faraday rotation (F…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy
After a star has shined for the last time, its core can disintegrate to become a Supernova. Type I Supernova occurs in binary systems stars, which contains a white dwarf star and a companion…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy
Harmony and dissonance are two general classifications of sound heard when listening to musical chords. Except for electronically generated pure tones, every note has overtones which are fai…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy Second Award
Muons are elementary particles produced by cosmic radiation that have a very consistent flux, making them useful for experimentation. Muons have been used in experiments to detect magma flow…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Leidenfrost drops are extremely mobile and thus display unusual properties. To better understand the complex dynamics of Leidenfrost drops confined by a spherical surface and its mechanism a…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
In quantum metrology, we wish to study how quantum mechanics can be used to improve the measurement accuracy of physical quantities such as electric or magnetic fields. These fields, which a…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy Second Award
Current phased-array (PA) antenna systems utilize beamforming techniques that are optimized for 2D surfaces. Therefore, the implementation of these systems is limited to flat surfaces. To so…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy
Telescopes and astrophotography are effective tools to explore the sky. However, amateur astrophotography is a great challenge due to air pollution, artificial lights, and telescope equipmen…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy
Computer simulations play a fundamental role in the field of science. However, the necessary calculations require serious computing power, a facility which is often confined to well-funded i…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Binary supermassive black holes are expected to be common at the centers of galaxies. No observational technique has the resolution to directly image them. One indirect way to confirm their…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
When exploring the potential for life in the Universe, a star system’s habitability depends on both its internal structure, which sets up the building blocks for life, and its external envir…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy
We all know of the Big Bang Theory and how the universe exploded into existence, but there are a few inconsistencies with this theory. These inconsistencies are called the Flatness Problem,…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Simulations run on quantum computers are efficient tools to capture the quantum properties of fundamental particles more effectively than classical computers in high energy physics (HEP) sim…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy
Anomalous X-ray Pulsars (AXPs) have not yet been extensively studied using radio telescopes, and so there is a lack of knowledge regarding their emissions and locations. Studying neutron sta…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy
Developing early and reliable forest fires detection systems is of most importance in the current climate change scenario. For that purpose, using radio waves attenuation patterns reveals se…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy
In this research, we want to explore how to represent the actual orbit from the observational orbit of an visual binary. A total of two studies were conducted, and the first was a mathematic…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy
Future space missions may use resources embedded in asteroids for fuel, water or oxygen. Carbon-based asteroids are suspected to contain water; therefore, NASA sent the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy
This investigation had the goal of identifying clusters of exoplanets and potentially habitable exoplanets that are within a 100-light-year distance from Earth, to see if there is any relati…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy
Fiber optical cables connect the whole world to the internet and most of these cables use strained quantum well laser diodes (SQWLDs). Laser diodes lose around 25% of the power they are give…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy
To start to question the general theory of relativity, one has to go back and has to be sure that everything that comes before is safe and sound. In the following pages, LIGO pipelines were…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy
Exposure to sunlight on many building materials has a negative impact on several aspects such as corrosion, discoloration, cracking, and high energy consumption. The current project investig…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
Purpose: There is a disparity in the estimated age of the Coma Ber Cluster. A recent study used the turnoff point method to determine an age estimate of 800 Myr (Tang et al. 2018), significa…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy
The creation of nanofilm (sheets of nanoclusters) are widely used in many materials today for structural engineering and electronic equipment. Manipulating and observing nanocluster growth i…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy
The effect of wing shape on a paper airplane’s flight, or rather gliding distance was tested by launching two different airplane designs fifty times each. After every flight the distance bet…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy
Bikes are one of the most efficient forms of transportation. One main thing that deters people from this simple form of transportation, is the difficulty of riding up hills and distances. Th…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy First Award
Asteroid collisions pose a significant danger to Earth. For instance, the Chelyabinsk meteor of 2013 led to ~1500 injuries. NASA’s goal was to find 90% of city-annihilating asteroids larger…