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ISEF · 2026
Plant Sciences
The most common threat to agricultural settings is the infestation of insect pests, leading to the destruction of crops. Modern-day agricultural systems lack the intricate living systems tha…
ISEF · 2026
Translational Medical Science
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) is a deadly neurodegenerative disease caused by prion proteins (PrPSC), which trigger normal cellular proteins to misfold, resulting in aggregation and neuron…
ISEF · 2026
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Dilution refrigerators are used in advanced physics systems such as quantum computing because they can cool materials to temperatures near absolute zero. A key component of these systems is…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Gold Medal
Antibiotic resistance is one of the most urgent crises in global health, and the first step in fighting it is correctly identifying whether a bacterium is Gram-positive or Gram-negative — a…
ISEF · 2026
Embedded Systems
Adequate access to tactile resources such as braille and tactile images is one of the largest challenges towards improving the blind or visually impaired (BVI) education level and socially c…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy
Cosmic acceleration is usually described by the transition redshift, which marks when the universe changed from slowing down to speeding up. This study examined whether the transition could…
ISEF · 2026
Chemistry
Controlled drug delivery systems can improve chemotherapy effectiveness while reducing side effects. This study investigated how pH and polymer coatings affect the release of doxorubicin fro…
ISEF · 2026
Software Design
Data centers experience increasing heat generation and energy consumption as artificial intelligence (AI) workloads expand. Traditional cooling systems operate reactively, activating only af…
ISEF · 2026
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 · 2026
Plant Sciences
In 2024, corn losses due to weather and fire events exceeded $3.85 billion in the U.S. alone. Corn is critical for livestock feed, fuel, and trade, but yield variability causes supply instab…
ISEF · 2026
Translational Medical Science
Dry eye disease (DED) is increasingly understood as a disorder involving both ocular surface inflammation and corneal nerve damage. Although platelet-rich plasma (PRP) and cenegermin (Oxerva…
ISEF · 2026
Materials Science
The pulp and paper industry drives massive deforestation and CO2 emissions, while 1.3 billion tonnes of biopolymer-rich food waste are discarded annually, representing a vast, untapped resou…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical Engineering
Inaccurate malaria diagnosis in remote areas drives drug resistance and fatal treatments. Rapid tests miss the critical P. knowlesi, while standard Whole Slide Imaging (WSI) microscopes are…
ISEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering
Traditional water pumps rely on expensive infrastructure and maintenance, substantial electrical power, specialized lifting equipment, with costs prohibitive for rural/remote communities. Th…
ISEF · 2026
Animal Sciences
The rice field crab, Sayamia bangkokensis , is a freshwater semi-terrestrial crab with growing commercial significance, especially in soft-shell crab production. These crabs must be harveste…
ISEF · 2026
Plant Sciences
Greenhouse gas emissions continue to accelerate global warming, contributing to plastic pollution, microplastics contamination, and food insecurity. This research investigates integrated car…
ISEF · 2026
Animal Sciences
Climate change threatens oyster populations around the world. Rising ocean temperatures lead to severe challenges. As such, there is a clear need for research into ways to protect endogenous…
ISEF · 2026
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Hypoxia is common in solid tumors, and Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1 Alpha (HIF-1a) plays a key role in adaptation to low-oxygen environments. This year’s research focused primarily on the intr…
ISEF · 2026
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Autonomous drone fleets have immense potential in medical supply delivery during disaster incident response. However, coordinating multiple drones in such settings introduces compounding cha…
CWSF · 2026
Curiosity & Ingenuity
Hydraulics! How are they so powerful? I set out to find the answer by building a model hydraulic system that could crush an aluminum can. A simple hydraulic system consists of a reservoir, p…
ISEF · 2026
Biochemistry
Cancer remains a leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for approximately 10 million deaths annually, and is strongly associated with genome instability and replication stress. Aphidic…
ISEF · 2026
Embedded Systems
Cryogenic Electron Microscopy (Cryo-EM) is the cornerstone technique for determining atomic-resolution structures of proteins implicated in neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s. Howev…
CWSF · 2026
Energy Bronze Medal
Cold environments present a major challenge for electrochemical systems, where freezing disrupts ionic pathways and leads to rapid loss of functionality. This project investigates whether th…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Gold Medal
2.3 million women are diagnosed with breast cancer every year, world wide. One of the main tools to decide the treatment is tumor grade, or aggressiveness of the cancer cells. Yet, the patho…
ISEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering
Roughly 46 million tons of mixed-fabric waste and 5 billion tons of Styrofoam waste end up in landfills each year. These industries alone account for around 35.5% of all landfill waste. Mixe…
ISEF · 2026
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Disease-spread and its consequences are governed by a multitude of factors, but only recently has culture been considered among its predictors. The individualism-collectivism spectrum, which…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy
Dark matter constitutes approximately 85% of the matter in the universe and is inferred through gravitational lensing, in which both baryonic and dark matter bend light from distant galaxies…
ISEF · 2026
Microbiology
Drug-resistant Candida albicans infections are rapidly outpacing current antifungal therapies as mutations in the ERG11 enzyme reduce azole drug efficacy and drive treatment failure. Most an…
CWSF · 2026
Curiosity & Ingenuity Bronze Medal
Damage-Induced Response: Crack-Activated Fluid Delivery in Composite Materials Cracks in materials can lead to sudden failure, especially during events like earthquakes, making structures un…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy
Dark matter is the primary component of galaxy clusters and a driver of cosmic structure formation, yet its impact on cluster properties remains poorly understood. While the Navarro-Frenk-Wh…