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ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy
Gravity and expansion shapes the universe into a vast cosmic web of empty regions (voids), flat sheets (walls), thin threads (filaments), and dense clusters. While filaments and clusters are…
ISEF · 2026
Animal Sciences
Bird habitat quality depends on how much food, water, and shelter the habitat provides. Urbanization may affect habitat quality for birds. I made a hypothesis that bird species richness, abu…
ISEF · 2026
Software Design
Online child grooming is a serious and growing issue that occurs across many digital platforms, making it difficult to detect when only one type of evidence is used. This experiment focuses…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy
Electromagnetic forces inside matter are fundamental in condensed matter physics but there are multiple theories that describe them and it is yet to be determined which theory is correct. Th…
ISEF · 2026
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Autonomous robotic systems and the vision-language models powering them share a critical failure: both produce actions through opaque latent embeddings with no causal justification, thereby…
ISEF · 2026
Biochemistry
My project is DPPH: Antioxidant Properties of Tea, in which I tested to see if earl grey, jasmine, or chamomile tea had vastly different amounts of antioxidants, and if brewing time affects…
ISEF · 2026
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) aims to improve Quality of Life (QoL) for food-insecure Americans, but it faces challenges from legislation that seeks to cut SNAP benefi…
ISEF · 2026
Animal Sciences
In nature, microbial volatiles serve as behavioral cues for insects. Pesticides aim to replicate the behavior-triggering nature of these volatiles; however, with approximately 6 billion poun…
ISEF · 2026
Embedded Systems
My device "Dream Mornings" measures various biometrics to identify sleep stages to wake its user up at an ideal point in their sleep cycle. Traditional alarm clocks ring at a specified time…
ISEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are synthetic chemicals with strong carbon-fluorine bonds that resist breakdown in the environment and are associated with serious health effects,…
ISEF · 2026
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In the past 20 years, flooding has been the most common natural disaster worldwide, accounting for 43% of all recorded events, and causing tremendous loss of life and property. The North Car…
ISEF · 2026
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Autonomous drone navigation in GNSS-denied environments is challenging because conventional systems rely on rigid spatial representations, require environment-specific training, or are too c…
ISEF · 2026
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Alzheimer's disease (AD), a multifactorial neurodegenerative disorder, is associated with amyloid-beta aggregation, tau hyperphosphorylation, neuroinflammation, apoptosis, and endoplasmic re…
ISEF · 2026
Biochemistry
Drug repositioning—the repurposing of existing drugs for new applications—provides high safety but is still limited in gene therapy. As gene therapy research grows globally, safe genome engi…
ISEF · 2026
Chemistry
With the advancement of vaccine technology, the need for safe and effective adjuvants has become increasingly important. While QS-21 is a clinically established adjuvant, it alone cannot ful…
ISEF · 2026
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Access to safe drinking water remains a pressing global challenge, with millions exposed to heavy-metal contamination each year. At the same time, fertilizer runoff degrades water quality th…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy
Black hole X-ray binaries contain a black hole that accretes gas from a companion star, producing bright X-rays. By fitting the X-ray spectra with astrophysical models, we can estimate key p…
ISEF · 2026
Animal Sciences
There have been calls for replacing synthetic food dyes, including Yellow 5 (tartrazine), with natural dyes, including beta-carotene extract from the microalgae Dunaliella salina. The projec…
ISEF · 2026
Mathematics
Classical graph coprime labelings given by Gallian (2009) are static and unchanging, thus inadaptable to real-world systems. We introduce dynamic coprime labeling (DCL), a novel extension of…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy
Kerr black holes, or rotating black holes, are central to understanding spacetime curvature around massive rotating bodies; the Penrose process offers a theoretical framework for extracting…
ISEF · 2026
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
In all known life, proteins are synthesized on ribosomes. This delicate biochemical process is regulated by a multitude of factors, one of them being the Nascent-polypeptide Associated Compl…
ISEF · 2026
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Schizophrenia affects 24 million people worldwide. A critical barrier to treatment is anosognosia, the lack of illness awareness that develops in later-stage SCZ and causes patients to refus…
ISEF · 2026
Mathematics
Early-stage identification of Alzheimer's disease is regarded as a critical factor for effective disease and intervention management. Structural changes of the brain are difficult to quantif…
ISEF · 2026
Mathematics
Disease outbreaks are dynamical systems that can abruptly cross critical transitions and escalate into epidemics. While early warning of epidemics is essential for life-saving interventions,…
ISEF · 2026
Technology Enhances the Arts
Communication barriers significantly affect those who are deaf, hard of hearing, speech impaired and/or mute. Limiting access to education, healthcare, employment, and everyday social intera…
ISEF · 2026
Animal Sciences
This project proposes a three-compartment trash can designed to separate waste at the point of disposal. General waste, food waste, and processed animal feed are collected in separate sectio…
ISEF · 2026
Materials Science
Over 2 billion people globally lack access to fresh water, and in recent years, fog harvesting has emerged as a promising solution in water-scarce regions. Yet, the only widely implemented s…
ISEF · 2026
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Waste affects nature because it often accumulates in inaccessible spots like lakes, crevasses and slopes. In the mountains tourists can bring in and wind scatter wastes like plastic, paper,…
ISEF · 2026
Embedded Systems
In this project, the researcher developed the engineering goal of creating a real-time drone system that would fly over an area, state the location of each invasive plant, create a risk asse…
ISEF · 2026
Embedded Systems
Worldwide, food waste is a major contributor to methane emissions, a potent greenhouse gas, creating an urgent need for sustainable, decentralized energy technologies. EcoSense-CH4 is a smal…