Maren Lesche

Deep ocean extreme environments – sites of immense beauty, wonder and intrigue – harbor unique and unimagined microorganisms that thrive at radically different pressure, temperature, salinity, and pH regimes compared to those on land or in the surface ocean. State-of-the-art genomic and computational approaches will guide targeted discovery of unique…

According to Fabiyan Angikath, current methods of hydrogen production involve CO2 emissions and/or are expensive. He, therefore, suggests introducing molten metal reactor technology to produce sustainable H2 production.

Better medicines faster by automated design. The project integrates constructive artificial intelligence (AI) into the pharmaceutical drug development progress. The central theme is to transfer decision making from the human science manager to a machine intelligence that generates novel molecules with desired properties from scratch. We devise suitable algorithms and…

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,…

Sofía Ulloa Arias is addressing the environmental impact of short-lived plastics in the pet industry, where discarded toys contribute to significant waste. Her solution involves the use of mycelium from mushrooms and vegetable substrates to create compostable pet toys, promoting a greener future and revolutionising the sector with the world’s…

Muhammad Osama Bin Shakeel is addressing the problem of energy waste due to phase unbalancing. It increases the power loss and electricity bills while decreasing the lifecycle of appliances and instigating safety deficiencies. Intellica, a 3 Phase Load Balancer, aims to balance the load among 03 phases in real time.…

How Immunotherapy Can Become Effective Against Cancer One of the biggest challenges in the research for new cancer treatments is the fact that many tumours are equipped with a molecular shield that allows them to repel attacks from the immune system. Since the 1980s, there have been cancer therapies which…

Saeka Uchino has tried to establish an effective strategy to improve the immune function of breast milk in both quantity and quality by characterizing the IgA-producing cell lines that she succeeded to establish.

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With a tagline, ‘Reporting that seeks to empower’, EnAct addresses two social issues: high levels of energy poverty and low levels of energy literacy. A journalistic project that aims to build understanding of energy, EnAct sees its first challenge of finding ways to ‘engage’ the public in a technical and…