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.
AJAS · 2019
Environmental Engineering (inferred)
Every year sees 6.5 million lives lost to air pollution (IEA); 1.3 billion tons of trash are produced yearly, a figure expected to reach 4 billion by 2100 (World Bank). Thus, the purpose of…
AJAS · 2019
Robotics and Intelligent Machines (inferred)
The problem of minimizing risk in industrial plant settings is of high interest for research. Long hours in industrial control rooms induce fatigue, drowsiness, and ease of distraction, posi…
AJAS · 2019
Worldwide, fungal and bacterial infections have been responsible for 50% of post-harvest losses (Cabral et al, 2013). When this harvested food is fed to livestock or accidently ingested, it…
AJAS · 2019
Behavioural and Social Sciences (inferred)
1 in 68 Americans (over 3.5 million people in the United States) is currently affected with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and more are diagnosed each day. The average age of diagnosis for…
AJAS · 2019
Plastics have become a critical pollutant in the world’s oceans and landfills. For example, it is estimated that more than 8 million tons of plastic enter the ocean every year. Given the pre…
AJAS · 2019
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (inferred)
Polygenic developmental diseases affecting humans like autism spectrum disorder often have unknown causes and are difficult to cure. Gene expression and regulation is among the most importan…
AJAS · 2019
Plant Sciences (inferred)
When I had first thought of this project, my hypothesis is that the pole beans are going to all grow tallest, the pole beans without the plastic/paper will grow best out of the three, the pe…
AJAS · 2019
Epigenetic response is recognized as an important component in growth and adaptation across species. It is well documented in plants and animals that epigenomic changes occur as a response t…
AJAS · 2019
Plant Sciences (inferred)
Genetic diversity is crucial to the survival of species. To preserve plants threatened by natural and human causes, ex situ conservation has been implemented with seed banking and cryopreser…
AJAS · 2019
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), the most common cause of death among people over the age of 65, currently has no prevention methods or cures. However, there are several drugs that can delay or pre…
AJAS · 2019
Microbiology (inferred)
The purpose of this project was to determine what cleaning product would most effectively remove peanut residue, and to determine if different surface materials have an effect on retaining p…
AJAS · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) can occur when a pregnant woman consumes alcohol. Prenatal alcohol consumption may cause abnormalities in the fetus including craniofacial, neurobehavioral and c…
AJAS · 2019
Experiments have identified that sulfur containing amino acids (SAA) can have adverse effects on mice and rats, including significantly shortening their lifespans, but little research has be…
AJAS · 2019
Caenorhabditis elegans is a transparent, microscopic nematode with an entirely mapped neurological system. This allows for studies on neuronal activity as a simplified model of the human neu…
AJAS · 2019
Phytoestrogen is a polyphenolic compound naturally present in plants. Recent research presents that due to the structural similarity of phytoestrogen to estrogen, when administered into the…
AJAS · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Glucose has been shown to shorten the lifespan of the nematode C. elegans that has an evolutionarily conserved insulin signaling pathway similar to that of humans. This study examined the ef…
AJAS · 2019
This project is on the effects of pharmaceutical waste on Daphnia magna. Scientists have been becoming more worried about chemicals from prescription drugs and over-the-counter medications t…
AJAS · 2019
With the rapid increase in cell phones and portable digital communication, exposure to radio-frequencies (RF) has become a health concern. This study examined the effects of radio-frequencie…
AJAS · 2019
Fire return intervals (FRIs) are a key environmental factor in chaparral ecosystems. With increasing drought and anthropogenic fire ignition particularly in the past decades, dangers with sh…
AJAS · 2019
The purpose of this research was to determine if it was possible to extract the hormone metabolites out of the feces of the screaming hairy armadillo to establish a new protocol for this ani…
AJAS · 2019
This study develops an efficient method to compute the binomial channel capacity and applies it to the molecular channel. The binomial channel (with parameter n) takes the success probabilit…
AJAS · 2019
Acute bacterial meningitis is a medical crisis with a poor prognosis, especially if treatment is prolonged. Development of bacteremia and sepsis is common during infection and neurological s…
AJAS · 2019
Biomedical Engineering (inferred)
Concussion research has become a very relevant topic across various media outlets. In the NFL there was an increase of 58% on the amount of concussions during the regular season in 2016. Con…
AJAS · 2019
Epha4b gene expression may contribute to variances in facial formation including functional differences such as nose shape and clinical conditions such as cleft palate. During craniofacial d…
AJAS · 2019
The purpose of this experiment was to test whether exercise could mitigate neuroinflammation, epigenetic dysregulation, and memory loss caused by high-fat diet. Diets high in fat cause decre…
AJAS · 2019
Abstract Surgical site infections (SSI) frequently form in an open wound from the initial orthopedic implant surgery. These infections are caused by an unsterile environment during and follo…
AJAS · 2019
Background: Women who have a family history of breast cancer are known to have a higher risk of developing breast cancer. However, there is much less data on the association of family histor…
AJAS · 2019
Plant Sciences (inferred)
The rise of human population indicates the need to make humans a multiplanetary species. Exploration of Mars by physically present scientists will lead to a critical requirement for food. Th…
AJAS · 2019
Materials Science and Engineering (inferred)
The modern dynamic speaker requires a mechanically-actuated diaphragm, rare-earth magnets, and rigid voice coils, which causes them to be bulky and inflexible. However, current developments…
AJAS · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Type 2 diabetes affects over 300 million people worldwide. Initially, insulin resistance leads to decreased glucose uptake by peripheral metabolic organs. This decrease in uptake of glucose…