Liu Olin

My work revolves around the biological, chemical, political, cultural realities of aquatic environments. It explores humankind’s impact on other species and on the rights of non-human entities, while calling for strategies emphatic towards other species to be adopted. In my analysis of the theoretical framework of the Anthropocene, I use…

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…

We do deep research in examining these creatures and utilizing them for our behalf, we treated several patients who suffered from antibiotic resistant infections using phages, many of them successfully. Tags: Bio-Tech, Med-Tech, Science Policy, Microbiology, Antibiotic Resistance.

The nominating institution FMP on the breakthrough: Christian Hackenberger has pioneered contributions to the development of protein-based therapeutics, based on the chemical modification and cellular delivery of antibodies to target cancer and viral infections. Highlights include the engineering of an inhibitor against human and avian influenza, and safer next-gen antibody…

Nominated by: Jessica Gallagher, University of Adelaide Presented by: Lewis Dunnigan

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…

How Video Games Can Improve Brain Functioning and Treat Mental Illnesses “Do you suffer from schizophrenia? Do you hear distressing voices? There’s an app for that.” The claim of the latest “web-tutor” might sound like a scam, but it actually introduces us to an entirely new approach in treating mental…

How Artificial Intelligence Research Tries to Build Intelligent Autonomous Systems Can robots be creative enough to build their own language? Computational linguistics explores semiotics, its origins, evolution and dynamics with an interdisciplinary approach aimed at finding out statistics and rules to construct a computational model of natural language. Luc Steels,…

Nominated by: Thomas Montenegro-Johnson, University of Birmingham Presented by: John Terry

Background and Aim In Japan, it has been noted that interest in science declines as the school year progresses. According to the 2019 TIMSS results, the percentage of elementary and middle school students who say “studying science is fun” declined as they reached middle school, falling below the international average…