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ISEF · 2025
Environmental Engineering
With the rapid expansion of global manufacturing, emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) have surged, posing serious threats to both public health and environmental safety. However,…
ISEF · 2025
Materials Science
According to UNICEF (2021), 500 million women worldwide lack access to menstrual products, clean water, sanitation, and hygiene facilities. Women in developing countries have difficulty obta…
ISEF · 2025
Materials Science
The urgent need for sustainable alternatives to plastics has highlighted the challenges of developing biomaterial with similar mechanical properties, particularly focusing on biodegradabilit…
ISEF · 2025
Translational Medical Science
Conventional methods for Alzheimer's Disease (AD) early diagnosis are often considered not cost-effective and sometimes invasive. Although recent AD studies focus on blood biomarker-based me…
ISEF · 2025
Plant Sciences
Ambrosia artemisiifolia is an invasive weed that significantly suppresses immune systems and outcompetes monocrops in Mississippi due to its pollen distribution. The primary objective of thi…
ISEF · 2025
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Non-pharmaceutical interventions to COVID-19 included mask mandates, social distancing mandates (banning large gatherings, advising individuals not to socialize outside their households), sc…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Coastal erosion is a growing global crisis, threatening economies, ecosystems, and communities. Around the world, beaches are disappearing due to shifting wave patterns, rising sea levels, a…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Forests store large quantities of carbon globally. However, a decrease in the forest area is considered to contribute to global warming. Protecting forest ecosystems is vital for curbing glo…
ISEF · 2025
Plant Sciences
Phaseolus vulgaris (common bean) is highly drought-sensitive. Camellia sinensis (green tea) contains polyphenols that may mitigate drought stress. Using 40 P. vulgaris seedlings grown from s…
ISEF · 2025
Plant Sciences
This study aimed to determine which light color is most effective for growing a plant entirely indoors and for preparing a plant to be transplanted outdoors. Optimizing indoor plant growth s…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Long Covid (LC) is a condition that can occur after Sars-Cov-2 infection or as a result of vaccinations (Post-Covid Vaccination Syndrome (PCVS)). There is a wide range of over 200 registered…
ISEF · 2025
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Cancer is the second leading cause of death worldwide. In 2021 almost 10 million people died of cancer. Numerous conditions and factors can be attributed to the formation of cancer. A critic…
ISEF · 2025
Physics and Astronomy
In this project, we studied how water content and the magnetic field affect the Relativistic Runaway Electron Avalanche (RREA) and Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes (TGFs) using a simulation too…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Gut microbes play an important role in maintaining our health and disease susceptibility. Multiple diseases including type 2 diabetes (T2DM), obesity, and metabolic syndrome are associated w…
ISEF · 2025
Plant Sciences
With the renewed goal of manned Lunar explorations and future Mars exploration, continuous fresh food production during long duration deep space missions can be critical. Production of fresh…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical Engineering
Burn injuries, trauma, and organ transplants are often time-consuming, costly, and complex to treat. Tissue engineering offers a promising alternative, allowing tissue to be grown using a pa…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Endometriosis is associated with infertility in 30% to 50% of the millions affected worldwide. Decidualization, a key endometrial differentiation process that facilitates embryo implantation…
ISEF · 2025
Plant Sciences
The hydrogel has gained attention as a delivery mechanism to reduce nutrient runoff and improve delivery of fertilizers. Hydrogels are crosslinked polymers that expand to hold liquid when su…
ISEF · 2025
Microbiology
Antibiotics have been the main solution to combat bacterial infections, however their inappropriate use has caused health problems, like dysbacteriosis as well as the development of resistan…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Knee arthroplasty for severe arthritis is being frequently performed worldwide in varied clinical settings due to increased patient awareness and longer life expectancy. Intraoperative vascu…
ISEF · 2025
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The ever-increasing global energy demand—particularly for small, portable, and wearable electronics and self-powered systems—necessitates the development of sustainable energy sources. Mecha…
ISEF · 2025
Systems Software
This project detailed the development of NLC (Natural Language Compression), a text encoder optimized for natural language (NL). Efficient NL encoding is most valuable for satellite-based te…
ISEF · 2025
Physics and Astronomy
Quantum open systems account for unavoidable interactions with environmental noise such as energy dissipation crucial for modeling realistic quantum dynamics. Additionally, colored noise in…
ISEF · 2025
Environmental Engineering
Alkalinity is a crucial water quality parameter with significant environmental and engineered system applications. Various analysis methods exist, from traditional titrations to advanced spe…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical Engineering
The purpose of this experiment is to create a palate expander that is significantly easier to use than your standard RPE model. Palate expanders are necessary for children in early stages of…
ISEF · 2025
Technology Enhances the Arts
Braille illiteracy remains a critical barrier to equality for the visually impaired. Globally, over 70% face employment discrimination—not due to their disability, but due to systemic barrie…
ISEF · 2025
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
With renewed interest in green fuel technology or E-fuels as an alternative to fossil fuels, interest has returned to hydrogen production and improving the electrolysis process. The key issu…
ISEF · 2025
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
With need for electrical power increasing around the globe and natural bacteria living in the ground, this work will present a novel solution to meet the energy demands by using the alternat…
ISEF · 2025
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Finding reliable long-term energy solutions remains a critical issue in addressing climate change. This experiment evaluated the potential for microbial fuel cells (MFCs) to generate electri…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical Engineering
Benham's top, characterized by black-and-white patterns, induces an optical illusion where colors other than black and white are perceived as it is spun. This study aims to investigate this…