38,465 real projects from ISEF, the Canada-Wide Science Fair, JSHS, AJAS, the Calgary Youth Science Fair and the California Science & Engineering Fair — searchable by meaning, and filterable by fair, year, category and award.
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death in the world, and the mature human heart has little capacity to regenerate. Recently, induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiom…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Aggregation of the protein alpha-synuclein causes symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease in human brains. Treatment of transgenic NL5901 C. elegans with the xenohormetic phytochemical curcumin was…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
Phosphate run-off into natural waterways from agricultural fertilisers and animal manures can cause eutrophication. Agricultural operations are large consumers of non-renewable fertilisers a…
ISEF · 2020
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Since 2013 energy storage research has been focused on supercapacitors (SCs) due to their many advantages over batteries: 1) charge times are exponentially smaller 1-30 second instead of 10-…
AJAS · 2020
The epigenetic response is recognized as an important component in growth and adaptation across species. The Arctic tree line is the largest transitional ecotone in the world and a site of w…
ISEF · 2020
Engineering Mechanics
Aviation is a vital part of modern infrastructure. It is, however, highly energy consuming and has a substantial climate impact since it is run almost entirely by fossil fuels. The purpose o…
AJAS · 2020
Materials Science and Engineering (inferred)
This work discusses a novel method to deposit thin films of a liquid metal, eutectic gallium‐indium (EGaIn), on a copper substrate through electrophoretic deposition (EPD). The EPD procedure…
ISEF · 2020
Chemistry
Nowadays, hypochlorite is mostly used as a sterilizer. However, long-term exposure or attaching hypochlorite may damage our body, while the announced hypochlorite detection method required t…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical Engineering
The blockage of blood vessels by clots is the primary cause of vascular diseases, like myocardial infarction and ischemic stroke. Current treatment of this involves intravascular administrat…
JSHS · 2020
Allison Hennings Liver cirrhosis is a complication of various liver diseases, which are leading causes of worldwide morbidity and mortality. Currently, the only treatment for late stage live…
ISEF · 2020
Chemistry
This project is about an investigation to find out whether rice husk could be used for producing wood that can be substituted as a fire-resistant wood in general. Experiment with coconut hus…
ISEF · 2020
Embedded Systems
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, "In 2017 there were 5,977 pedestrians killed in traffic crashes in the United States. On average, a pedestrian was killed eve…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
A previous study indicated that the antimicrobial peptide Cecropin A could be an effective tool against cyanobacterial blooms. Several applications of Cecropin A against these blooms could i…
ISEF · 2020
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Coral trees are tall PVC structures used to outplant small coral fragments. Coral fragments are suspended from the branch of the structure to prevent sediment from smothering fragments and r…
JSHS · 2020
Western Connecticut State University Although scary, data collection is inevitable. Our society needs data to improve. But, unlike popular opinion, data collection does not necessarily entai…
ISEF · 2020
Chemistry
The recent characterization of the natural product Lindbergin E (a novel prenylated acylphloroglucinol heterodimer with leishmanicidal activity) by Socolsky et al. presents a promising alter…
ISEF · 2020
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Parked vehicles can reach unsafe temperatures, potentially leaving children, pets, and others in our care at risk for heatstroke or even death. The purpose of this project is to develop a pr…
AJAS · 2020
Nanoparticles, ranging in size from 1-100 nanometers, are potentially toxic to animals. Aluminum oxide nanoparticles (Al2O3 NPs) have been linked to brain inflammation and dopaminergic neuro…
ISEF · 2020
Translational Medical Science
The long-term goal is to develop an automated, real time, in situ red blood cell (RBC) identification, counting, and RBC distribution width (RDW) calculating system using deep learning. The…
ISEF · 2020
Systems Software
The purpose of this experiment was to optimize Pixy2 camera parameters with the Raspberry Pi 3B+ to accurately detect and report the color of red and yellow traffic lights. Color blindness i…
ISEF · 2020
Behavioral and Social Sciences
It’s important to understand if a demonstration of questioning one’s definition of “happy” and “content” can change one’s perception of being “happy.” Through an educational video, I hypothe…
ISEF · 2020
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
A big problem is climate change. The U.S. uses more than 187.8 trillion pounds of non-renewable natural gas. The U.S. discards renewable products every year including 222.5 billion pounds of…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
The researcher aimed to test effects of transdermal iontophoresis treatment consisting of quorum-sensing-targeted siRNA on growth of Staphylococcus epidermidis. Small Interfering RNA(siRNA),…
ISEF · 2020
Translational Medical Science
Dry macular degeneration affects nearly 200 million people worldwide. There is no FDA-approved therapy for this disease, which is the leading cause of irreversible blindness among people ove…
AJAS · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
It is evident that Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts (CAFs) are key regulators of the immune system to assist the tumor in immune evasion, however, little research has been conducted on the mech…
ISEF · 2020
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating, neurodegenerative, adult-onset disorder, for which there is no known cure. In approximately 97% of sporadic ALS patients, a protein call…
ISEF · 2020
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This research aims to design a cost-effective add-on to solar cells that allows for the capture of solar ultraviolet light. While scientists have created expensive multijunction panels that…
ISEF · 2020
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
This experiment sought to determine if individuals with schizophrenia have observable differences in the genetics of their oral microbiomes compared to healthy individuals. This was done by…
ISEF · 2020
Systems Software
The Enigma was an encryption device the Nazis used during World War II. The purpose of this study was to determine the circumstances under which intercepted Enigma messages could be decrypte…
ISEF · 2020
Mathematics
In 2011, Anderson and Frazier introduced the theory of generalized factorizations in integral domains, which is based on studying restrictions of the multiplicative operation of an integral…