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ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Tornadoes have various wind speeds throughout their life cycles and are usually warned by the National Weather Service to protect life and property. I analyzed data on select tornadoes (2011…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Approximately 3.5 million people die annually due to inadequate water resources. More than 90% of pollution-related deaths occurred in low-income and middle-income countries. Although resear…
ISEF · 2025
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
With the increasing use of high-performance CPUs and GPUs, thermal management has become crucial. Conventional cooling methods, such as heat sinks and air coolers, often generate continuous…
ISEF · 2025
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
As fossil fuel depletion drives the shift to alternative energy sources, this project aims to enhance efficiency and sustainability by combining a thermoelectric generator (TEG) with a photo…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Bacterial cellulose (BC) is a promising biomaterial for wound healing and regenerative medicine due to its biocompatibility, water retention, and high tensile strength. This study evaluates…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Iron-sulfur (Fe-S) clusters are cell-essential cofactors present in roughly 60 proteins, including DNA polymerases, subunits of oxidative phosphorylation complexes, and iron-sensing proteins…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (hEDS) is an inherited connective tissue disorder that primarily stems from defects in the extracellular matrix, namely collagen. Within those diagnosed, f…
ISEF · 2025
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Neurogenesis during early embryonic development is a highly regulated, transcriptional process that establishes the framework for the vertebrate central nervous system (CNS). The QSER1 gene…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Age-related macular degeneration, or AMD, is a progressive degeneration of the retina that causes significant central visual impairment, impacting nearly 20 million elderly adults in the Uni…
ISEF · 2025
Microbiology
Artificial sweeteners are widely used sugar substitutes, and their effects on gut microbiota remain controversial. This study investigates the antimicrobial effects of artificial sweeteners…
ISEF · 2025
Mathematics
Polygons, a fundamental concept within the sub-learning area of geometry, have a versatile structure that makes them highly suitable for generalization. With applications extending across ma…
ISEF · 2025
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Music induces emotions, and emotions affect people's behavior and mental health. This project studies how different musical key signatures influence listeners' emotions. A survey was designe…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The teleoperation of robotic hands is limited by the high costs of depth cameras and sensor gloves, commonly used to estimate hand relative joint positions (XYZ). We present a novel, cost-ef…
ISEF · 2025
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
In today's day and age, our world has been plunged into an energy crisis. Current clean energy solutions rely on lithium-ion batteries made with cobalt and lithium. These minerals are proble…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
Traditional nesting boxes fail to replicate the stable microclimate of natural tree hollows crucial for mature tree species, due to offset designs causing large temperature fluctuations, lea…
ISEF · 2025
Microbiology
Antibiotic resistance is a rising threat to public health. Until recent years, efforts to combat antibiotic resistance have focused on creating newer and stronger antibiotics, but pathogens…
ISEF · 2025
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Drug-drug synergy is crucial for developing effective combination therapies, and gene function relationships play an important role in identifying these synergies. However, due to the comple…
ISEF · 2025
Cellular and Molecular Biology
In vitro drug sensitivity testing is critical for identifying effective cancer treatments. However, due to the vast number of potential drug monotherapies and combination therapies, in vitro…
ISEF · 2025
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The purpose of this study is to isolate the specific population of an all-girls, private, Catholic high school to determine the effects of school climate on mental wellbeing of teachers and…
ISEF · 2025
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders (NHPI) suffer disproportionately from cardiometabolic health conditions, with diabetes mortality rates 3.32 times higher than the general population, ye…
ISEF · 2025
Embedded Systems
The design of flat metasurfaces is crucial for innovations in LiDAR, AR and optical imaging. Recent advances in flat metasurface optics have enabled precise light manipulation, overcoming tr…
ISEF · 2025
Materials Science
The global water crisis affects over 2 billion people, with contaminated water sources leading to waterborne diseases and the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). This challenge…
ISEF · 2025
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Globally, countless organisms suffer from infections, diseases, and environmental threats. Custom proteins are at the heart of solutions to these challenges. Custom proteins are life-saving…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) is a severe genetic condition that causes progressive muscle weakness and degeneration. Despite current treatments focusing on symptom management, no cure e…
ISEF · 2025
Technology Enhances the Arts
Globally, an estimated 40-45 million people are blind, and an estimated 160 million are affected by deafness and blindness. Those who can hear can rely on speech to learn and communicate, wh…
ISEF · 2025
Translational Medical Science
Despite the fact that studies have established a notable link between tourism-particularly cruise ship traffic-and increased respiratory illnesses, there is a lack of official research exami…
ISEF · 2025
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Central nervous system (CNS) diseases such as Alzheimer's, epilepsy, and stroke affect over 1 billion people globally, and dysregulated astrocytic calcium signaling can drive these pathologi…
ISEF · 2025
Biochemistry
Herpes Simplex Virus-1 (HSV-1) infects around 70% of the global population, causing cold sores on the lips and genitals. This study presents a novel antiviral approach targeting plakin prote…
ISEF · 2025
Behavioral and Social Sciences
WHO states that the global life expectancy (LE) is 73 years, with chronic diseases responsible for 75% of all deaths globally. Beyond individual wellbeing, this reality places substantial bu…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Cocoa production contributes 10% to Ghana’s GDP, but diseases like Anthracnose and Cocoa Swollen Shoot Virus Disease (CSSVD) caused $1.2 billion in losses in 2023. Traditional detection meth…