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ISEF · 2026
Plant Sciences
The danish oceans, fjords and lakes are oxygen deficient due to excessive rain washing fertilizer and pesticides into them. This results in a critical reduction of the biodiversity in these…
ISEF · 2026
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This study analyzes the contributions of an instructional material that implements computational thinking (CT) to teach introductory programming concepts to 2nd- and 3rd-grade elementary sch…
ISEF · 2026
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
For sensors deployed in shaded field environments, it is difficult to utilize solar energy as a sustainable long-term power supply. This paper proposes an energy storage system driven by diu…
ISEF · 2026
Microbiology
Staphylococcus aureus is a pathogenic bacteria well known for developing resistance to antibiotics, with dire consequences for human staph infections. This study explored the time required f…
ISEF · 2026
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is a chronic neurodegenerative disorder affecting ~12 million worldwide, causing >329,000 deaths annually, with 80% of cases strongly influenced by cognitive impairm…
ISEF · 2026
Translational Medical Science
Retinal diseases are the major causes of permanent vision loss worldwide, affecting tens of millions of people and making early, accurate detection essential for timely intervention and pres…
ISEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering
This experiment explores the regenerative properties of activated carbon as a filter for PFAS in water when combined with microwave-activated magnetite. PFAS refers to a family of over 14,00…
ISEF · 2026
Materials Science
This research investigates the reuse of banana pseudostems for the production of thermoacoustic panels for application in civil construction. The initial idea was inspired by research conduc…
ISEF · 2026
Mathematics
Modern financial markets are complex, interconnected systems where localized stress can amplify into system-wide instability. Traditional risk measures, such as volatility indices, quantify…
ISEF · 2026
Animal Sciences
Local anesthetics are used to temporarily block nerves from transmitting pain signals during invasive medical procedures. Complications can arise when large doses are inadvertently administe…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical Engineering
Purpose or Problem: Millions of people suffer from stammering, and adult severe stammering patients have a low chance of recovery. Other temporary alleviation methods are not consistent or a…
ISEF · 2026
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The eastern oyster is critical for coastal habitats and provides biological benefits such as improved water quality, stabilization of shorelines, and increased estuarine biodiversity, yet oy…
ISEF · 2026
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Entanglement is the leading cause of death in marine mammals each year and it is estimated that only 10% of entanglements are detected and reported. Rescuers have been injured and lost their…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical Engineering
Primary liver cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. However, one of its standard treatments, transarterial chemoembolization (TACE), often has low target vessel speci…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical Engineering
Tympanic membrane perforations affect over 320 million people worldwide and are a large cause of preventable hearing loss. Current procedures rely on manual skill, limited visualization of t…
ISEF · 2026
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Sustained attention span is declining among adolescents, linked to weakened memory and reading comprehension, a significant barrier to academic/social success. This study tested and develope…
ISEF · 2026
Biochemistry
Hair health is an important factor in maintaining a healthy body. Although hair appears strong, it is constantly exposed to mechanical wear, environmental factors, heat, chemical treatments,…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical Engineering
Bleeding poses as the most serious cause of death in traumatic injury. Whenever someone is bleeding from one of their limbs, a tourniquet (TQ) is vital for stopping hemorrhage. TQs work by t…
ISEF · 2026
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Upper-limb prosthetic abandonment remains at 44%, a clinical failure rooted in the intractable complexity of human motor control: the approximately 20 degrees-of-freedom (DoF) of the hand cr…
ISEF · 2026
Animal Sciences
Microplastic pollution is an emerging environmental health threat, with polystyrene microplastics detected in water, food, and even our blood. Their toxicity arises from leachable endocrine-…
ISEF · 2026
Software Design
Random number generation underpins cryptography, simulation, distributed systems, and machine learning, yet the relative impact of generator architecture versus programming language implemen…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical Engineering
This is a new direction in the development of athlete health monitoring and the analysis of performance in relation to maximum capacity. A crucial and important aspect in both amateur and pr…
ISEF · 2026
Software Design
Robotic manipulation of hazardous or sensitive objects is essential in laboratory, industrial, and remote environments, but remains challenging due to object variability. While teleoperation…
ISEF · 2026
Embedded Systems
The release of unmanned hot-air balloons is a Brazilian cultural tradition that, despite being illegal, poses environmental and socioeconomic threats to the country. Balloons are a major cau…
ISEF · 2026
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The increase in climate catastrophes in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, such as landslides, floods, and other disasters, represents a challenge for family farmers in the affected r…
ISEF · 2026
Technology Enhances the Arts
Dementia affects over 57 million individuals worldwide, causing two critical challenges: facial recognition deficit and disordered speech. Current assistive tools for dementia such as facial…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy
Origami and linkages are widely used across architecture, space engineering, and the natural world owing to their high interconnectivity, where a single input drives the entire mechanism. Bo…
ISEF · 2026
Plant Sciences
Pests are a serious problem as they cause drastic negative impacts on global food production. The current solution, using pesticides, causes even bigger issues: having detrimental impacts on…
ISEF · 2026
Software Design
Generative modeling for structure-based drug design aims to generate three-dimensional ligands directly from the geometric and chemical context of protein binding pockets. However, existing…
ISEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering
Indoor pools pose an under-monitored public health risk, as chloramines, formed from chlorine reacting with swimmer-derived compounds, accumulate in air and are linked to asthma and respirat…