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ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences
A healthy stream is vital to the local ecosystem for many reasons. The stream helps regulate floodwaters, filters pollutants, serves agricultural purposes, and maintains a balanced ecosystem…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences
California experiences reoccurring earthquakes along its fault lines; however, since 1906, the southern region of the San Andreas Fault System has not produced a 6.5 or higher magnitude (M)…
ISEF · 2025
Systems Software
Cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks are one of the most common web vulnerabilities but are difficult to track and prevent. Websites have a very large XSS attack surface area, with every user…
ISEF · 2025
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Each year, millions of auto accidents occur, many of which are the result of loss of control due to unstable vehicles or worn-out parts (NHTSA, 2019). The suspension system plays a key role…
ISEF · 2025
Chemistry
Microalgae is an optimal biofuel candidate due to its ease of growth in many water environments, high lipid content, and lack of overlap with food production. The separation of microalgae fr…
ISEF · 2025
Chemistry
This study investigates the combined effects of cobalt ferrite (CoFe2O4) and silver orthophosphate (Ag3PO4) as potential materials for water purification. Innovative magnetically seperable A…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Coral reefs support over 25% of marine life and play a critical role in producing 50% of the oxygen we breathe. Scientists predict that by 2030, 90% of coral reefs will be endangered due to…
ISEF · 2025
Embedded Systems
This study investigates various audio preprocessing techniques for classifying lung sounds, particularly Per-Channel Energy Normalization (PCEN). We combined and augmented two primary datase…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Water pollution is a global problem which requires sound, cost-effective wastewater purification. This study evaluates the natural effectiveness of Opuntia ficus-indica (prickly pear cactus)…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
Ants – with their ability to assist in seed dispersal and scavenging – are an often overlooked foundational part of our ecosystems. In fact, according to the Journal of Animal Ecology, ants…
ISEF · 2025
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Recent studies have attracted aeronautical organizations to the hydrophobic and ice-repellent properties of the Gentoo penguin. These characteristics have prompted investigations to replicat…
ISEF · 2025
Translational Medical Science
Diabetic macular edema (DME) is a leading cause of vision impairment, affecting up to 30% of diabetics. It results from retinal fluid buildup due to vascular leakage and is commonly treated…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Currently, there is a noticeable lack of AI in the medical field to support doctors in treating heterogenous diseases such as Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM), which has a five-year survival ra…
ISEF · 2025
Materials Science
Strokes are a leading cause of global mortality and disability, with ischemic strokes accounting for the majority of cases. Even worse, the current treatment for ischemic stroke, tissue plas…
ISEF · 2025
Biochemistry
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has improved our understanding of the brain. However, it cannot distinguish among the discrete signaling pathways of specific neurotransmitters.…
ISEF · 2025
Mathematics
There are over 400,000 cases of Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) recorded annually, with over 90% of these events being fatal. The current detection system used to detect cardiac arrest in hospit…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) is an inherited X-linked disease with an incidence of 1:3,600. Patients become weak at 2-3 years old with progression to respiratory failure and death in th…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical Engineering
Lung cancer (LC), responsible for one in five cancer-related deaths, remains a major public health challenge (American Lung Association, 2024). Early detection is critical, as 5-year surviva…
ISEF · 2025
Microbiology
One of the most important steps in the overall workflow of manufacturing a drug is ensuring that the mice in which the drug is tested are healthy; unhealthy or sick mice will provide inaccur…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical Engineering
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of death worldwide, killing about 17.9 million people annually. Most CVDs are age-related, driven by gradual damage to blood vessels, als…
ISEF · 2025
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The growing prevalence of neurodegenerative diseases underscores the importance of improved diagnostic accuracy. Many proposed Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS) have low interpretabil…
ISEF · 2025
Technology Enhances the Arts
OpenAI's ChatGPT has blurred the line between human and AI-written text, challenging academia's ability to verify authorship. Existing AI detection systems fail with paraphrased content or m…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer globally, with over 1.9 million new cases and nearly 1 million deaths annually. The incidence of early-onset CRC, defined as cancer oc…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have emerged as a promising therapy for late-stage lung cancer. However, the response rate to ICIs remains low. As a result, there is a need to better und…
ISEF · 2025
Physics and Astronomy
Atmospheric transmission spectroscopy - a method to detect molecular signals in a planet’s atmosphere - could help humankind explore how the universe has evolved to support life on exoplanet…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
Birds generate calls and songs with distinct frequency patterns. Spectrograms have long been used to visualize those sound patterns by mapping changes in pitch and amplitude over time. While…
ISEF · 2025
Translational Medical Science
Metabolic disorders and malnutrition remain critical health concerns, often undiagnosed due to invasive, costly, and inaccessible testing methods. VitalEdge is a novel non-invasive biosensor…
ISEF · 2025
Embedded Systems
Cardiovascular and respiratory diseases make up 2 of the 3 leading causes of death globally amounting to more than 23 million people. More than half of these deaths are preventable with earl…
ISEF · 2025
Systems Software
In recent years, advancement in artificial intelligence and speech synthesis technologies, have made it possible to clone human voices with remarkable accuracy. While this opens many benefic…
ISEF · 2025
Embedded Systems
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a cornerstone of global innovation. However, current digital hardware, such as GPUs, faces critical computational bottlenecks with the growth of next-…