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Aquí Nos Cuidamos is a project of the nonprofit Ciencia Puerto Rico (CienciaPR) that promotes COVID-19 prevention and the well-being of vulnerable and marginalized communities in Puerto Rico through a culturally relevant multimedia education, community engagement, science and solidarity. To read the speech in Spanish, please click here. / Para leer el…

In this Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation with Marius Brand, digital participants had the chance to discuss and ask questions. The interview series provided an intense personal atmosphere, in which high-level guests, speakers and panelists of the Falling Walls Science Summit 2021 focused on their individual research, career paths and experiences.…

The nominating institute University of Zurich on the breakthrough: While mutualism was already acknowledged by Darwin, almost all studies have focused on highly specialized, one-on-one interactions. This misses the fact that mutualism shapes networks of interdependencies involving dozens of species. Bascompte’s work fills this gap by showing that the structure…

PRESENTED BY Aadeel Akhtar NOMINATED BY University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Tags: Prostethetics, Prosthetic Arm, Prosthetic Hand, Redefining Human

Journey between designer Salome Bazin (Cellule Studio) and myself, a bioengineering scientist, aiming to shape the future of cardiovascular healthcare by creating conversations with citizens and cardiac patients in particular. Two milestones of our collaboration have been “Big Heart Data”, a series of 50 3D printed hearts, and “Kalostasis”, an…

How A Collaborative Effort Can Prevent A Worst Case Climate Scenario The term “global energy crisis” still sounds like a vague future scenario, but over the last decade, science, policy and the public have slowly come to agree that the threat is real and taking shape right before our eyes.…

The nominating institute Geomar on the breakthrough: The independent evolution of pregnancy in most vertebrate groups required drastic morphological and genomic reorganisation. Roth’s project focuses on adaptation in male pregnancy evolution in pipefishes and seahorses, evolving on a gradient from external fertilisation to full pregnancy. Only this genus allows the…

My project is to transform the grass from the malagasy savanna in Fianarantsoa to Bio briquettes. Tags: Climate change, Environment & Nature, Renewable energies.

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious”, Albert Einstein said. “It is the source of true art and science.” In her project, the internationally renowned photographer Herlinde Koelbl places the main focus on this playfulness, the amazement which is driving every researcher: A formula, a philosophy, a…

Wiping out a widespread disease is a notoriously difficult challenge on a global scale and malaria is one of the oldest and deadliest diseases to affect humanity. Malaria exacts a huge toll on human health and imposes a heavy social and economic burden, particularly on countries in sub-Saharan African and…