20,037 real projects from ISEF, the Canada-Wide Science Fair, JSHS and the Calgary Youth Science Fair — searchable by meaning, and filterable by fair, year, category and award.
ISEF · 2018
Translational Medical Science
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) currently affects over 5 million people. As this number continues to rise, it becomes increasingly important to study AD and find therapeutic targets. The beta-amylo…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences
Purpose: Coronatine (COR) is a phytotoxin produced by Pseudomonas syringae. This research tests the effects of COR at low concentrations have on drought stress in varieties of maize to creat…
ISEF · 2018
Biochemistry
The purpose of this experiment was to test whether exercise could mitigate neuroinflammation, epigenetic dysregulation, and memory loss caused by high-fat diet. Diets high in fat cause decre…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This experiment focuses on the effect that increasing temperature has on plant development and nutritional content. By using Wisconsin Fast Plant Astro Plants and Broccoli Microgreens grown…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences
Due to the depletion of the ozone layer, many plants are exposed to high amounts of ionizing radiation. Glycine max (soybean) plants in particular have prominent industries around the world.…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Insomnia is a condition occurring in 30% of Americans and it is known to significantly impair a person’s cognitive function (Pirone et al., 2016). While the benefits of lithium on memory and…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences
Monk parakeets are multi-decade inhabitants of Brooklyn that contribute to noise pollution; they make loud social calls in their communal nests atop trees, telephone poles, and utility struc…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not multilingualism had an effect on working memory capacity and retention of information. The null hypothesis was that there would be n…
ISEF · 2018
Microbiology Third Award
Antibiotic misuse has caused bacteria to evolve resistance, raising the potential for widespread, devastating health crises. Novel therapeutic alternatives to antibiotics seek to target viru…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences
One of the predominant insect disease vectors, the Aedes aegypti mosquito has been recorded in both fresh and salt water environments. Understanding the relationships between Ae. aegypti and…
ISEF · 2018
Energy: Chemical
This experiment examined the effectiveness of sodium bicarbonate as a nutrient for algae growth and oil production. The algae was grown in three different concentrations of sodium bicarbonat…
ISEF · 2018
Microbiology Third Award
The gut microbiome plays an essential role in human health. Sugar substitutes and food preservatives were tested for their effects on the microbiome, specifically their effect on the growth…
ISEF · 2018
Energy: Chemical
Procedure We experimented with the following content as below for achieving the purpose. 1. Measuring a photoelectric efficiency according to the size and crystal structure of TiO2 nanoparti…
ISEF · 2018
Cellular and Molecular Biology
The purpose of this experiment is to determine if HisKPC-3 mutated beta-lactamase proteins are more antibiotic resistant than HisKPC-2 proteins, and what is occurring at a molecular level th…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This study investigated expression of genes correlated with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and dyslexia on the vocal and auditory pathways of a zebra finch, a model for unde…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry
With the rapid development of touch devices such as display screens, photovoltaic cells and organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), there is a growing demand for transparent conductive electr…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry
Petroleum derived products have the potential to cause an enormous harm to the biosphere and removal of these products from the ground water and run-off water presents one of the most critic…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics
First, the number of pairs of consecutive quadratic residues modulo an odd prime p are counted, using sums of the Legendre symbol. We then extend this to triples of consecutive quadratic res…
ISEF · 2018
Cellular and Molecular Biology Fourth Award
Aquaporin1a1 is an integral membrane protein that facilitates the transportation of water molecules across a cell. Previous research showed that morpholino knockdowns showed reduced transfer…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
The purpose of this experiment is to determine the feasibility of creating a polyethylene-degrading bacterial gel. The larva of Galleria mellonella, also known as wax worms, was discovered r…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics
Finsler-Hadwiger's inequality is a classical inequality, which is a stronger version of Weitzenboeck inequality. It connects side lengths and area of Euclidean triangles. The works on Finsle…
ISEF · 2018
Engineering Mechanics Third Award
The purpose of this research is to create a better body armor by testing different woven patterns and creating a loom for the textile. Body armor plays a huge factor in the vitality rate of…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
The Hofstadter Butterfly is a distinct fractal pattern in quantum physics that describes the energy eigenvalues of electrons subject to a magnetic field in a two-dimensional (2D) lattice. As…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This experiment aims to discover how the omnipresence of media in today’s society influences a person’s perception during social situations. Given that the processes of emotion and social pe…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry
The effect of various solution preparation methodologies on the aggregation of P3HT is studied. The aggregation of P3HT was induced by the use of a chloroform:dichloromethane binary system a…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences
Ocean acidification is a stark reality and is only predicted to increase. This research will evaluate how future increase in acidification will affect organism’s reproductive abilities. Sea…
ISEF · 2018
Engineering Mechanics
Since the late 1700’s engineers all over the world have been working on ways to create pneumatic pod and train like systems to move passengers. One of the foremost projects related to this i…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy First Award
Collective motion has attracted increasing interest in recent years as it is observed in a wide variety of applications such as the flocking behavior of birds or self-assembling nanoparticle…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
Research problem: The Accumulation of dust and moisture on a glass surface is a challenging problem especially in countries with harsh environments. The current solutions suffer many drawbac…
ISEF · 2018
Biochemistry
We asked ourselves what the influence of citric acid on bacterial growth would be and at which concentration the solution would be lethal to a certain bacterium. We assumed that Escherichia…