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Random numbers are widely used for information security, cryptography, stochastic modeling, and quantum simulation. We invent a scalable, robust, energy efficient method for physical true random number generation using a semiconductor laser chip of volume less than 1 mm cubed. Ultrafast emission fluctuations are digitized to produce hundreds of random…

Douglas Remhunga is addressing the environmental problem of aluminium can waste by proposing a solution that involves extracting nano alumina from the cans. This nano alumina can then be utilised as an adsorbent or catalyst to treat acid mine drainage, offering a sustainable approach to repurpose aluminium can waste.

We are a non-profit, independent, creative digital science communication platform. We create social network based content that is entertaining, rigorous and informative. Our work focuses on making interesting what is important, science. We like to think of Shots de Ciencia as a machine that takes in scientific papers or other…

The nominating institution HIPPO Foundation on the project: The HIPPO foundation builds artificial intelligence data sets representing the world’s population for each disease, and provides these datasets on their new open knowledge license. The HIPPO Foundation believes medical knowledge should be available to all, and that medical AI should become…

The Witness Tree Project aims to break the wall to talk to nature. We try to reconnect people, in particular high-school students, with trees and forests through the use of automated data collected and translation. The project’s automated social media accounts, that post human-readable messages based on data about the…

Tonico Deodato’s project investigates the influence of social motivation on the social impairments present in children with ASD through observation of their helping and cooperative behavioural tendencies.

According to Dana Pousty, safe water can be accessible anywhere around the globe by using the sustainable UV-LED lab patented device which uses multispectral wavelengths to achieve maximum disinfection with minimum costs and energy consumption.

McDonald is a visual artist working in painting, drawing, film and sound. Her works explore the origins of life on the planet and the information held within plant life. In ‘A space and time outside,’ she investigates Herbarium plant specimens brought back from the 1825 Franklin Arctic Expedition to explore germination and the potential…

Nominated by: Keith Nugent, Australian National University Presented by: Vanessa Vongsouthi

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…