Giancarmelo Stamilla

As a species, we have a remarkable history of scaling up and distributing new technologies among the world’s population. For centuries, books and letters were precious and limited to a small elite, today the printed word is ubiquitous and production costs are negligible. The most recent democratisation of technology took…

How Evolutionary Biology Explains Creativity How many of our friends on Facebook or X are actually posting their own texts and ideas rather than quoting someone else’s? But more importantly, what if we stopped innovating in the real world, becoming more followers than leaders, copiers rather than innovators? Mark Pagel…

In the final voting, NextGen Water’s multidisciplinary team emerged at the forefront, comprising Dr. Hussam Hussein, a political scientist from the Royal Scientific Society (Jordan), Dr. Amit Kumar, an environmental engineer from Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), Mr. Manoj Matwal, a conservation and sustainability consultant from the Harela Society (India), and Dr.…

A Report from COP 27. The Conference of Parties (COP) is the supreme decision-making forum of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), bringing signatory governments together once a year to discuss and agree on how to jointly address climate change and its impacts. In November 2022, the…

Fabrication of a 3D bioprinting macro vascular tree that will be connected with the cells assemble micro capillary network to study the behavior of metastatic cells through the endothelial barrier. Tags: Bio-Tech.

Ayhay is a Montessori-inspired for-profit and national accredited primary school that provides quality education for children in Madagascar with affordable tuition and local Montessori materials.

The nominating institution TU Munich on the breakthrough: Reconstructing our 3D world from moving cameras is at the heart of computer vision. It fuels endless applications ranging from augmented reality and computer animation over 3D perception for self-driving cars to digital heritage and medical imaging. Daniel Cremers made groundbreaking advances…

Our project is based on a 2000yrs Kaitiakitanga (active protectors, stewards, caretakers, and conservers) plan for Warawara forest. In this forest are ancient tree’s such as Kauri, local botanists suggest that these tree’s may have lived up to 2000yrs, so our virtual reality project is observing the forest over this…

Delay Lines (feedback) draws from our research and work with silica-based mediums such as glass, integrated circuits, and soft robotics. Silica – one of the most common substances on Earth – is formed when massive stars explode. This stardust permeates our bodies and all aspects of our built world through…

The nominating institute Charité on the breakthrough: Petra Ritter has developed “The Virtual Brain”, a computational platform for the virtualization of brain structure and function. It uses novel concepts from computational, cognitive and clinical neuroscience. By using personalized data, patient-tailored models are created to better understand pathomechanisms in the brain,…