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ISEF · 2025
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
At the moment, there are over 60,000 km² of mined areas around the world and approximately 110 million landmines remaining, while their manual removal is not feasible at the current rate of…
ISEF · 2025
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
In this project our goal was to create a machine capable of heating water with compost. The machine uses a process called hot composting. This occurs when a compost pile is made with the cor…
ISEF · 2025
Environmental Engineering
Food wastes are a major environmental pollutant due to the greenhouse gases that are emitted by them, like: methane. It should be notice that Food loss and waste is estimated to be roughly o…
ISEF · 2025
Microbiology
Plant-based natural products are utilized as active ingredients in herbal medicines, and studying their bioactivities is necessary for evaluating their medicinal value. The present study aim…
ISEF · 2025
Translational Medical Science
Malaria is a devastating disease that kills over half a million people annually. Research shows the Plasmodium falciparum protozoan disrupts iron regulation by degrading ferroportin, allowin…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Surface water is decreasing in the Rio Grande as a consequence of climate change, intensifying the vulnerability of our aquifers due to higher demand for groundwater pumping. Agricultural pr…
ISEF · 2025
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
This study aimed to identify potential inhibitors of meso-diaminopimelate decarboxylase (LYASE), a bacterial enzyme crucial for lysine biosynthesis, using molecular docking simulations. The…
ISEF · 2025
Microbiology
Antibiotic resistance is a major global health threat projected by the World Health Organization to cause 10 million deaths annually by 2050. Autolysins like AtlA, essential for bacterial ce…
ISEF · 2025
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Every year, approximately 90,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with lymphoma, a cancer impacting white blood cells called lymphocytes. The CD30 receptor, overexpressed in Hodgkin…
ISEF · 2025
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Cannabinoid receptor subtype 2 (CB2), a G protein-coupled receptor within the endocannabinoid system (ECS), has shown promise as a therapeutic target in cancer and inflammatory diseases due…
ISEF · 2025
Systems Software
Sabre fencing is a sport of split-second decisions, where in 60% of points, both fencers land touches within milliseconds of each other. In such cases, determining who earns the point is ent…
ISEF · 2025
Physics and Astronomy
A planet is an object that moves through space in a fixed path, orbiting a star or remnants of a star. An exoplanet is a planet outside our solar system. The TESS space telescope has identif…
ISEF · 2025
Physics and Astronomy
Neutron stars are remnants of the cores of massive stars after they undergo supernovae at the end of their lives. They were theoretically predicted in the 1930s and first observed in the 196…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This experiment was performed to significantly cut down the amount of polluted freshwater bodies in the world. This experiment has findings that make this much faster, easier, and cheaper th…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical Engineering
Pneumonia, an infection of the lungs where air sacs fill with fluid, causes 2.5 million annual deaths and is the leading cause of death in children under five. From scratch, we developed a c…
ISEF · 2025
Translational Medical Science
This project presents the development of three AI-powered diagnostic tools capable of identifying malaria, leukemia, and anemia from peripheral blood smear (PBS) images using convolutional n…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Coral reefs are the world's most vital marine ecosystems, producing 50% of the world's oxygen and sustaining the livelihoods of 1 billion people globally. However, coral bleaching, a phenome…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The purpose of this investigation is to determine if there is a relationship between different coral species and their ability to adapt to heat. This experiment explores how corals might inc…
ISEF · 2025
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The mental state of students is an area of which we need to draw more attention towards, including Mississippi. Studies show that anxiety and depression are two major mental illnesses studen…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Louisiana pipelines are made of many different materials as they were all built during different times where certain metals were optimal. These aging pipes can be hazardous to the community,…
ISEF · 2025
Systems Software
Individuals with conditions such as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) or paralysis often face significant barriers in communicating speech and mobility limitations. These challenges necess…
ISEF · 2025
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
This study explores the effectiveness of Convolutional Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (Conv-Bi-LSTM) in detecting neonatal seizure activity using Electroencephalogram (EEG) data, based…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
In the first 6 hours following a building collapse, the chance of finding a survivor is approximately 60%, but drops to less than 10% by the 48th hour. This research developed a soft biomime…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Arctic sea ice and permafrost are critical to global climate balance and bio-geophysical diversity. Recent CryoSat-2 satellite data indicates that ice thickness is depleting at the rate of 1…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Poor sleep is a major contributor to adolescent health issues, linked to poor mental health, risk-taking behaviour, and even physical health problems. Sleep issues can harm family and social…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical Engineering
This project addresses the accessibility gap in hypertension monitoring by developing a low-cost, cuffless blood pressure device. With 48.1% of U.S. adults affected by high blood pressure, m…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical Engineering
Millions of patients worldwide require the use of implanted medical devices (IMDs) to treat chronic illnesses. These devices use non-rechargeable batteries, requiring invasive and possibly d…
ISEF · 2025
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is one of the most aggressive and prevalent malignant primary brain tumors, accounting for 50.1% of all gliomas and 16% of all primary brain tumors. In the Unit…
ISEF · 2025
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) affect over 300 million people globally. In previous research, we identified ASXL3 as a biomarker for NDDs, but our understanding of how the clinical seve…
ISEF · 2025
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Mental imagery is a sophisticated brain function that enables high-level inference and creation. The ability for mental imagery varies among individuals along various dimensions, such as viv…