234 projects whose affiliated fair was here.
234 projects · showing 1–30
ISEF · 2026
Microbiology
It is important to find ways to study neuronal diseases or methods of treatment that are ethical, relevant, and effective. It is intriguing to see that the structure of fungal mycelium and n…
ISEF · 2026
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
As fossil fuels have been sent back to the head of the line for depletion, there is a need to continue to find alternative fuels. Algae has become a nuisance. In reaction to increased freque…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical Engineering
This study describes the design of an engineered fluorescent reporter system to detect plasmid co-residence resulting from horizontal gene transfer (HGT) within individual bacterial cells. T…
ISEF · 2026
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Declared a global crisis by the World Health Organization, antibacterial resistance causes over 5 million deaths annually. Existing models optimize binding affinity at a single evolutionary…
ISEF · 2026
Behavioral and Social Sciences
As we move into an era where AI agents are prevalent in many aspects of our lives, from solving scientific problems to acting as therapists, the world faces an unquantified risk. Every day,…
ISEF · 2026
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Traffic is a universal phenomenon for humans leading to casualties, economic losses, and health problems. Interestingly, traffic has been observed in other species as well. For example, ants…
ISEF · 2026
Chemistry
Various recent findings indicate that several tissues and muscles in the human body contain nano/micro-plastics; including the brain, acting similar to a sponge- absorbing the highest concen…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy
Black hole X-ray binaries contain a black hole that accretes gas from a companion star, producing bright X-rays. By fitting the X-ray spectra with astrophysical models, we can estimate key p…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Obesity increased the occurrence of diabetes in America, leading many to seek “healthier” alternatives and use of sweeteners. This project determined how sugar and different artificial sweet…
ISEF · 2026
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Hydrophobic surfaces repel water (are water-fearing) while hydrophilic surfaces attract water (water-loving). From this knowledge, we can discover and make observations on how different mate…
ISEF · 2026
Microbiology
Rising fertilizer costs have increased interest in sustainable methods for improving soil fertility. This project investigated whether Dermestid beetles could increase soil microbiomass by a…
ISEF · 2026
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Autism Spectrum Disorder, or ASD, is a neurodevelopmental disorder that can cause significant behavioral and social challenges. The prevalence of ASD has risen over the past two decades, ref…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Three-dimensional (3D) cell culture is an emerging technique that allows cells to grow in a way that more closely resembles how they exist in the body. Unlike traditional two-dimensional (2D…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Chemoresistance remains a primary cause of cancer treatment failure and is increasingly attributed to non-genetic regulatory mechanisms. Emerging evidence suggests that three-dimensional chr…
ISEF · 2026
Translational Medical Science
Retinal diseases are the major causes of permanent vision loss worldwide, affecting tens of millions of people and making early, accurate detection essential for timely intervention and pres…
ISEF · 2026
Materials Science
Lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) are FDA-approved tools for delivering small-molecule drugs and nucleic acids for cancer treatments with extensive ability to improve drug targeting and efficacy. L…
ISEF · 2026
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Traditional forest fire monitoring suffers from inherent flaws, including early warning lag, safety risks of manual sensor deployment in complex terrain, limited flight endurance of conventi…
ISEF · 2025
Mathematics
High-dimensional data is often difficult to analyze because of the exponential growth of the size of the space in which the data lives as the dimension increases. One example of high-dimensi…
ISEF · 2025
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This science fair project is about Peltier Tiles and Piezoelectric Harvesters and determining which renewable energy source serves as a better source of electricity and applications for both…
ISEF · 2025
Physics and Astronomy
Neutron stars are remnants of the cores of massive stars after they undergo supernovae at the end of their lives. They were theoretically predicted in the 1930s and first observed in the 196…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical Engineering
Pneumonia, an infection of the lungs where air sacs fill with fluid, causes 2.5 million annual deaths and is the leading cause of death in children under five. From scratch, we developed a c…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
In the 21st century, microplastics have become an increasingly common anthropogenic environmental pollutant. While the effects of microplastic contamination on many large species have been e…
ISEF · 2025
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Diabetes mellitus is one of the various types of major metabolic diseases that affect over 800 million people worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. The number of people livi…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Today, up to 3.6 million Americans suffer from Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) —a group of debilitating conditions, including Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, that cause chronic infl…
ISEF · 2025
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Intersubjective realities refer to the belief systems that when accepted by two or more people have real implications for objective reality. The Covid-19 Pandemic was dominated by the emerge…
ISEF · 2025
Translational Medical Science
Each year, 1.9 million people worldwide are diagnosed with colorectal cancer, and early detection of cancerous polyps is crucial for treatment. Endoscopic imaging is a critical part of ident…
ISEF · 2025
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Music is universally incorporated into various aspects of life in a plethora of ways. From culture, to listening to music in stores and restaurants, music is present and is well-known to exh…
ISEF · 2025
Materials Science
Over 40% of chemotherapy patients suffer toxic side effects due to non-specific targeting, and most genetic therapies are prematurely degraded before they can reach target organs, limiting t…
ISEF · 2025
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander populations experience a high incidence of kidney disease, with 921 cases per million annually (Xiang et al., 2020). A key contributing factor is the hea…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The researchers conducted experiments using Pestalotiopsis microspora and Pleurotus pulmonarius creating a non-toxic biodegradable process for decomposing plastic. P. microspora is a fungus…