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ISEF · 2025
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Global warming is a significant environmental threat, and vehicles contribute to it greatly. This project not only aims to design a power supply that does not contribute to global warming bu…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
Microplastics are widespread pollutants that pose risks to human health. Caenorhabditis elegans, a small nematode with a simple nervous system, is commonly used in biological research to ass…
ISEF · 2025
Microbiology
For my Science fair project, I investigated the cleanliness of public restrooms, specifically finding which area was the grossest. My hypothesis was that door handles would be the dirtiest s…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Columnar jointing is a well-known feature of frozen magma flows. World-famous examples include the UNESCO world heritage site, the Giant's Causeway, UK. Columnar jointing can be divided into…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical Engineering
This project tested which prosthetic materials are habitable for human epithelial cells, primarily to determine if a prosthetic could integrate with the body. Three mesh materials (stainless…
ISEF · 2025
Systems Software
With extreme heat events becoming more frequent and severe due to climate change, accurate temperature prediction is critical for preparedness and risk mitigation. Traditional offline models…
ISEF · 2025
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
ABSTRACT: The HYDROCULT project aims at transforming the kinetic energy generated by passing vehicles into usable energy for producing molecular hydrogen, eliminating the need for batteries…
ISEF · 2025
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
With the accelerated need for clean energy sources, hydrogen stands at the forefront of widespread adoption. Hydrogen leaks are difficult to detect due to the lack of odor, near invisible fl…
ISEF · 2025
Environmental Engineering
Fresh water is earth's most critical resource. Key limitations in water purification include reliance on external power, lack of between microbial disinfection and electrochemical decontamin…
ISEF · 2025
Environmental Engineering
Resulting from climate change and aggressive farming practices, desertification is a major threat to the environment and survival of millions, as according to the United Nations, desertifica…
ISEF · 2025
Materials Science
Purpose: To conserve water in space, scientists have come up with an efficient way to recycle it. While studying this, I wondered how the water would be conserved once we find a planet fit f…
ISEF · 2025
Technology Enhances the Arts
In the last decade, there have been monumental breakthroughs regarding the use of artificial intelligence in "human" fields, such as language and art. Coinciding with these developments, the…
ISEF · 2025
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are non-coding RNAs that bind to the coding sequences of target messenger RNAs (mRNAs), where they regulate gene expression. Mutations of miRNA binding sites within risk g…
ISEF · 2025
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Epigenetics is the study of how environmental stimuli affect gene expression without altering the DNA sequence. DNA methylation is an epigenetic mechanism in which a 5-methyl group binds to…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical and Health Sciences
In 2019 almost five million deaths were attributed to antibiotic resistance. If there is no future medical development to address this rising issue, the estimated death rate between now and…
ISEF · 2025
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Recently, thousands of universities have been established worldwide. Many working-class individuals have saved much money to invest in their children's higher education, hoping they will bec…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Many current AI models focus on object detection and avoidance. In order to collect objects rather than avoid objects, the distance and orientation of the object are crucial. This project fo…
ISEF · 2025
Plant Sciences
The objective of this experiment was to determine the impact continuous fertilization would have on the protein content and growth of soybean plants compared to initial fertilization only. T…
ISEF · 2025
Systems Software
The aim of this project was to understand and check the effect of encryption strength on the time it takes to breach passwords, which is a key aspect of cybersecurity. The research set out t…
ISEF · 2025
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Ranked as the fourth most common neurological disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is characterized by symptoms including excessive or repetitive behaviors, otherwise known as compu…
ISEF · 2025
Translational Medical Science
Irregularities in heart rhythm, known as arrhythmias, are often indicative of cardiac diseases. Electrocardiograms (ECGs) are the standard method for detecting arrhythmias, recording electri…
ISEF · 2025
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Morphing wing technology promises improved aircraft efficiency by optimizing aerodynamics across flight regimes. However, widespread adoption faces a fundamental challenge: excessive stress…
ISEF · 2025
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Age-related memory loss affects nearly 40% of the global population and for some, it leads to neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and dementia. With no cure and limited treatment…
ISEF · 2025
Chemistry
As global hydrogen demands reached 20 million tons in 2024, electrolysis "the chemical process of splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen" remains one of the most promising methods for clea…
ISEF · 2025
Mathematics
Atrial fibrillation (AFib) is an arrhythmia that can lead to serious health complications. Chaos theory, particularly recurrence matrices, can help distinguish between normal (SR), pre-arrhy…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
While pre-training with supervised or self-supervised learning has recently shown great promise in continual learning (CL) by learning generalizable features, it requires a large, external d…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical Engineering
The primary goal of the project was to develop an active compression-decompression (ACD) device for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) which enables reliable chest compression delivery and…
ISEF · 2025
Microbiology
Biosand filters are an effective way for rural or less-developed communities to purify water from local water sources. However, limited research has been done on how the addition of microorg…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Dental composites are widely used in restorative dentistry and typically require a dry environment for optimal bonding, which is challenging to maintain in the inherently moist conditions of…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
In the last few centuries and especially today, people tend to be horribly lacking in self-confidence, but they refuse to face the truth which prevents them from moving forward in life. They…