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ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
The purpose of this study was to determine whether the bacteria Bacillus cereus had any effect on the central nervous system of planaria (Dugesia tigrina). This study was conducted at a loca…
ISEF · 2022
Chemistry Third Award
Solar energy has been viewed as a potential clean energy source, but to become widely accepted, solar cells must overcome toxicity and inefficiency - issues that dye-sensitized solar cells (…
ISEF · 2022
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
As a member of the Nanticoke Tribe, I am acutely aware that my tribe, along with many other tribes throughout the continent, face a continuous problem due to contamination of their natural w…
ISEF · 2022
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This experiment examined changes in total annual precipitation and average annual temperature and their impacts on the natural carbon sequestration of Pinus Ponderosa. Tree core samples were…
ISEF · 2022
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The study kicked off when curiosity arose as to whether superworm consumption of polyethylene could be a solution to reduce plastic in landfills, based on supporting findings. A question was…
ISEF · 2022
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Tetracycline is an antibiotic that treats bacterial infections by acting as protein synthesis inhibitor through disruption of bacterial translation. Overuse of tetracycline has led to its re…
ISEF · 2022
Microbiology
Throughout this experiment, four different types of face masks were tested to see how much bacteria is spread while wearing them (N95, Kn95, blue surgical mask, cloth mask and no mask as the…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy
The dimple effect is a phenomenon that occurs when divots, or dimples, on an object create a turbulent boundary of air over the object leading to air moving further across the object, loweri…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences
Fertilizers (chemical substances that are added to soil) supply plants with nutrients to promote faster and better germination and growth. The research was carried out to determine the most…
ISEF · 2022
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Over the past 50 years, the use of hydraulic fracturing or fracking has increased as the demand for fossil fuels has increased and the process is more efficient at extracting oil and natural…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Upon experiencing a stress induced injury, organisms like humans and drosophila produce heat shock proteins, which protect cells from injury. When heat shock proteins are detected in tumors,…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences
Silk sheath, an alternative product of silkworms, can be obtained without having to sacrifice the silkworms. This product gives higher net income than the traditional silk cloth. However, si…
ISEF · 2022
Earth and Environmental Sciences
For more than a decade, the Tarrytown Reservoirs have had a severe algae problem which has resulted in an imbalanced ecosystem and an unpleasant aesthetic. The problem has been managed with…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of this study was to determine whether the addition of thin-film hydrophobic coatings on a photovoltaic cell (solar panel) had an impact on the energy output of the panel. The ex…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences
Lonicera maackii is an invasive honeysuckle species native to East Asia. There are detailed records on how this species of honeysuckle out-competes and pushes out flora native to Kentucky; i…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
Oil spills are major threats to the ocean and marine life, and they release massive amounts of oil. Oil dispersants are chemicals that break down oil into smaller droplets to make it easier…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Cancer cells evade apoptosis, a cellular suicide process that plays a pivotal role in cancer, thus enabling excessive cell proliferation. Metabolic reprogramming is a hallmark of cancers, wh…
ISEF · 2022
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Neurogenesis is highly crucial to the success of the nervous system, and perturbation of this process has the potential to elicit disease states. A better understanding has implications for…
ISEF · 2022
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This study examines carbon sequestration by Nannochloropsis algae when cultivated in solutions with different pH levels. If Nannochloropsis is grown in a solution with a pH between 7.5 and 8…
ISEF · 2022
Chemistry
Plants need water to grow, and yet many areas that grow our crops are suffering from drought. Increasing the ability of soil to hold more moisture for a longer time could benefit drought str…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science
Formulating an HIV drug as an oral thin film (OTF) can overcome many drawbacks of the current WHO-approved pediatric HIV antiretroviral therapy regimen used in sub-Saharan Africa. The curren…
ISEF · 2022
Chemistry
This experiment’s purpose was to suggest an inexpensive way to eliminate synthetic dye from textile wastewater in South Asia by utilizing orange peel powder. Cheaper alternatives are needed…
ISEF · 2022
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Imagine aquatic life like fish, crawdads, and tadpoles dead on the side of the creek bed. What we dispose of into our waterways matters. Filling the water with surfactants from products like…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences
A majority of hippotherapy patients struggle with balance, coordination, and self-regulation, causing participating horses to present stress/discomfort indicating behaviors (SDIB) during the…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The main problem is that we want to solve the problem of endlessness, which is spreading wildly in the world including Azerbaijan. So we used the effect of saffron on the human hormonal syst…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by impaired memory and accumulation of amyloid-beta (Aß) plaque in the brain. Type 2 diabetes is a risk factor for devel…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences
I investigated different substrates for the larvae (BSFL) of the black soldier fly (BSF). These larvae have great potential as an environmentally, economically sustainable protein source for…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
In this study, spider silk protein employment in topical wound dressings helps to shorten the wound healing period. In normal cases, it takes 12 days to heal the earthworm wound as a robust…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Cancer is the second leading cause of death worldwide causing 10 million deaths in 2020. Many patients do not have access to quality treatment and diagnosis which is unfortunate since the su…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a paradigm shift in the reliance on video-conferencing technology, However, video-conferencing technology has a hidden effect on body and self-esteem issues…