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Nurul Arifah Wahyuni is developing & producing SUHC, a unibody, self-installable balloon tamponade for preventive hemorrhage for under two US dollars.

Sarah Nyamita and Janorw are addressing the issue of financial exclusion in Uganda by providing mobile-based loans and financial services to the unbanked population, which constitutes over 70% of the total population. Her inclusive approach aims to bridge the gap and offer much-needed financial solutions to those who need it…

How Dementia Research Improves the Lives of Patients and Caregivers “Dementia” is the name for a group of symptoms that usually come slowly, often going unnoticed at first by relatives and friends, up to a point they can no longer ignore the changes in the person’s behaviour and personality. At…

Anfal Al Busaidi is addressing the inefficiency of solar cells in absorbing light by proposing the design of spectrally tunable transparent conducting electrodes (TCEs) for both the front and back of solar cells. The goal is to reflect absorbable light back towards the semiconductor and transmit non-usable radiation out, enhancing…

In this Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation, digital participants had the chance to engage in a live conversation with Ting Xu. She talked about her role as Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering at Berkeley University, her groundbreaking work on accelerating biodegradation of plastics and her hopes for the…

Our novel versatile biosensors for the rapid detection of various analytes is a cost effective Point-of-Care device to detect toxins, pathogens and viruses. Tags: Bio-Tech, Covid-19, Med-Tech, Mobile Health.

Martin Francis Phelan III is working to address the challenges associated with surgical interventions for life-threatening diseases such as cardiovascular issues and cancer, where the current gold standard involves harmful doses of radiation. His proposed solution involves developing the first versatile, MR-compatible robotic platform to enable real-time guidance and radiation-free…

How is it possible that a bird is able to perform some of the same tasks as a chimpanzee, or even a human? This should be impossible, at least on a cognitive level, given everything we have learned about the brain in the last century. According to a long-held theory,…

How Supernova Explosions Trace the History of the Universe The universe is stranger than we imagined: it is 1/4 dark matter that we do not understand and 2/3 dark energy about which we know even less. Robert Kirshner, a world-leading astronomer mentored a generation of successful cosmologists of the Nobel-winning…

In radiology, how can we reduce the entrance surface dose while keeping the obtained image acceptability for routine radiographic examinations to improve diagnosis quality? Hamza Sekkat uses a phantom and solid-state detector/multisensor to optimize the radiation dose and image quality by selecting image parameters that give an acceptable one with…