Brandon Clifford

Ferenc Krausz: Breaking The Wall To Attoseconds – Falling Walls Science Summit 2023 Physicist Ferenc Krausz, head of the Max Plank Institute of Quantum Physics since 2003, was awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on attosecond physics. His research has provided new insights into the behavior…

A recent study shows that hearing is the last sense to go when we die. What is the last sound you wish to hear at the end of your life? Yoko Sen is an ambient electronic musician who spent time in hospitals as a patient, horrified by their noise –…

PRESENTED BY Norbert Witz NOMINATED BY University of Stuttgart Tags: Semiconductors, Laser Engineering

Growing plants in arid lands entail an extreme evaporative loss of water & poor sandy soils. SandX mulch curtails this water loss, and CarboSoil improves soil fertility and sequesters carbon.

Emerging telerobotics concepts enable AI for universal assistance robots, as big data is gathered beyond lab walls. This way, robots learn new skills and increase failure tolerance during operation.   Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Climate change, Covid-19, Digital Health, Engineering, Food & Agriculture, Resilience, Robotic, Space & the Universe.

In this Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation, digital participants had the chance to engage in a live conversation with Edward Chang. He talked about his work as Joan and Sanford Weill Chair of Neurological Surgery at the University of California, his groundbreaking research on translating brain signals into highly complex speech…

The nominating institution Max-Planck-Gesellschaft on the breakthrough: The quest for unusual materials, such as metallic hydrogen or room-temperature superconductors, has been going on for decades. Mikhail Eremets has pioneered high pressure experiments to induce such states, which brought about innovations in materials science, but also high-pressure technology. The group has…

Nominated by: Matías Peire, GRIDX Presented by: Leandro Ciappina

Blanca Costa Ávila addresses the problem of respiratory distress due to fibrosis and stenosis of the airways produced by chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. She suggests that implanting a bronchial splint solves airway stenosis and improves pulmonary ventilation.

Graphite as it occurs in pencils is a brittle material that does not exactly spur the imagination, but modified into a two-dimensional web of hexagonal structures, it gains extraordinary superpowers. Graphene, a nanomaterial discovered in 2004, is 200 times stronger than steel, conducts both electricity and heat, and is almost…