Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
A self-developed, open-source High-Temperature Superconducting (HTS) Applied-Field Magnetoplasmadynamic Thruster (AF-MPDT) platform for deep-space propulsion combines potential for high Isp…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Evolution has shaped primates to develop two key advanced traits in comparison with lower mammalian species: first higher intelligence with increased brain size and cortical complexity and s…
Translational Medical Science
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disorder characterized by progressive motor neuron loss and limited therapeutic options due to its complex, multifactorial pa…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Metabolic dysfunction in Alzheimer’s and fatty liver disease is characterized by a paradoxical progression from mitochondrial hyperfission to pathological elongation. While lipid remodeling…
Environmental Engineering
Recognizing formaldehyde’s significant health risks and prevalence in the environment, particularly the indoors, this study presents a cost-effective and size-flexible integrated system for…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
This project introduces a fully self-designed, completely open-source, and affordable rocket module aimed at addressing real-life challenges that cannot be effectively solved by existing tec…
Microbiology
To use AI technology to evaluate the structural proteins of the ESX-1 secretion system of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and experimentally assess the potential of EccA1 as a preventive DNA vacc…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Volcanic eruptions pose severe risks to human lives, infrastructure, and the environment, affecting 500 million people worldwide. Early warning can reduce fatalities by 60%, yet 80% of 1,500…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Base editors hold great promise in the treatment of genetic diseases as nearly half of known pathogenic genetic variants are point mutations. However, despite recent progress, the base edito…
Materials Science
The quest for low-cost, safe, and environmentally friendly rechargeable flexible batteries is crucial in propelling the next wave of energy-storage innovations, particularly for implementati…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
First Award
Primates had evolved an advanced spermatogonia stem cell (SSC) system that correlates with reduced germline mutations and longer lifespans, yet the underlying mechanism remains poorly unders…
Physics and Astronomy
Fourth Award
After half a century of development, the technology of silicon-based electronic devices is gradually approaching its limits. Devices such as computers and cell phones start to require more p…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
In this enhanced exploration, we delve into the intricate design and integration of a pair of robotic arms, meticulously crafted through laser-cutting and 3D printing techniques, into our ad…
Biomedical Engineering
The neurological condition of Parkinson's disease causes involuntary shaking of the hands and body, leading to frustration with eating. Current tableware with jitter elimination technology o…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Fourth Award
Visually impaired individuals have dif?culty understanding their environment and the actions of others due to their limited visual abilities. Previous research has shown that approaches used…
Embedded Systems
First Award
Self-assembling modular robotic systems are a type of swarm robotics that allows for the assembly of different complex robotics configurations. Each system is composed of many individual mod…
Biochemistry
First Award
Safeguarding food quality and safety is essential to people's livelihoods. Over recent years, the ingestion of food-borne pathogens and their related metabolic toxins increasingly affects pu…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
First Award
The global electricity consumption due to cool air conditioning is huge, accounting for about 10% of the total global electricity demand. The self-powered energy saving device for air condit…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Second Award
In this study, we aimed to develop a cost-effective, adaptable, and easily repairable prosthetic arm, addressing the limitations of current prosthetic devices in terms of expense, inflexibil…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Third Award
Pipes that have tight structures can often be found in our daily lives but are difficult for human inspection and reparation. Therefore, the solution of using pipe-climbing robots is a more…
Plant Sciences
Fourth Award
Agricultural and horticultural crops evolve through competing against herbaceous plants, aka. weeds, with the help of herbicide. Finding an environment-friendly alternative has been a challe…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Transcribing audio files such as MP3s into digital symbolic formats such as Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) files has always been a complicated task, referred to as Automatic Mus…
Materials Science
Most human body movements are driven by low-level electrical potentials - electrophysiological (EP) signals. In order to capture and track these EP signals, electrodes must be used. Conventi…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Fourth Award
Given the unrestricted nature of real-world image classification tasks, open-set recognition (OSR), which generalizes conventional closed-set classification to include unseen categories duri…
Translational Medical Science
Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a common chronic skin disorder most prevalent in children around the world. It causes red and scaly skin with constant itching symptoms. Genetically, the condition…
Systems Software
Nowadays, depression and anxiety are severely affecting teenagers’ daily lives and music therapy is a widely accepted approach to promote children’s emotional health. However, improving the…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Since December 2019, a novel coronavirus known as COVID-19 has plagued the world. Currently, Chest CT imaging is used alongside the reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction test (RT-P…
Microbiology
Studying human nasal colonization among 250 healthy participants in Shanghai, China, we found the nasal colonization rate of S. aureus and S. epidermidis was 19% and 97.1% respectively. S. e…
Biomedical Engineering
Fourth Award
The goal of this project is to automize the Test of Gross Motor Development (TGMD) so that it can be widely applied in schools and potentially benefit billions of children. Gross motor devel…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
High voltage transmission lines are conventionally inspected and maintained by humans, drones, or helicopters; all of which are expensive, dangerous, and ineffective. Thus recently, robots f…