Sascha Hannon

According the hypotheses that plants can “communicate” among themselves, Olga Kisseleva is investigating the possibility of “eaves dropping” on this arboreal “dialogue,” and even taking part in it. This idea has given birth to the project in which trees can “communicate” on two levels: among themselves in the T2T (Tree…

How Deep Learning Can Give Birth to General Artificial Intelligence From chessbots to chatbots and from search algorithms to industrial assembly machines – humanity has arrived at the age of machine intelligence; or at least machine work, if we take seriously a definition of intelligence as “the abilities to learn…

Andrzej Zak’s project combines biology, medicine, and engineering. Its essence is to build a new device for observing previously not visualised and unknown bacteria-light interaction phenomena.

The nominating institution AIT on the breakthrough: The presented bi-modal sensing device allows for the first time simultanously to distinguish between mass-uptake and electrical surface changes at biological binding events. Until now, antibody and antigen interactions and the docking of bacteria or virus to tissue in the human body was…

Tech for High School Initiative is providing Internet Computer Technology infrastructures to high schools teaching students and teachers computer skills prior to taking a project-based approach in having students utilize their skills in solving complex problems in Liberia. Introduce a new ICT curriculum to teach students 21st-century skills such as…

When synthetic plastics were developed in the early years of the 20th century, it was a true breakthrough that revolutionised the world of materials. Over the long term however, the more than 350 tonnes of plastics produced every day might turn out to be a curse for humanity and the…

In this Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation, digital participants had the chance to engage in a live conversation with Laura Hassink. She talked about her role as Managing Director for STM Journals at Elsevier and the current challenges and developments in academic publishing. The interview series provided an intimate personal atmosphere,…

Kai-Wen Yang has developed an innovative medical device that can perform minimal open reduction and internal fixation to unite the vertebral compression fracture.

The project aims at investigating indigenous strains of rhizobacteria that could be used for rhizobia inoculant for use as biofertilizers.   Tags: Bio-Tech, Climate change, Environment & Nature, Food & Agriculture.

Nominated by: Bo Norrman, Chalmers University of Technology Presented by: Karl Bergman