María Pin-Nó

MICRO is a distributed network of six-foot-tall science museums designed to meet curious people where they are – in hospital waiting rooms, libraries, bus terminals, laundromats, and other public spaces. MICRO’s goal is to challenge long-held public assumptions about who museums are for and, by removing barriers to access, to…

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…

Khalat Taha is addressing the severe air pollution issue in Kurdistan by introducing Solar Leaves, a sustainable system that uses solar energy to power air purification technology. This innovative solution effectively combats urban air pollution by capturing and breaking down harmful pollutants, providing a scalable and environmentally friendly approach to…

Massively Multiplayer Online Science (MMOS) connects scientific research and video games as a seamless gaming experience. Players are invited to solve crowd-sourced research tasks integrated in video games, thus contributing to real-world scientific research. Projects include a mini-game where participants helped researchers understand the coronavirus by classifying cell populations. Another…

How Neuroscience Explains The Rise of Experience from the Brain Over the last years, much has been learned about the neuronal basis of consciousness in the brain. Together with a recently developed Integrated Information Theory of consciousness, this progress raises the possibility that science will soon come to grips with this most…

Superheroes against Superbugs (SaS) initiative partners with young children to raise awareness of antibiotic resistance (ABR; a subset of Antimicrobial resistance or AMR) to promote community dialogue and action. The program uses Grassroots comics, a simple, cost-effective engagement tool that enables children, irrespective of their artistic skills, to develop their…

Our new detector records the full position-momentum phase space for all electrons scattered through a sample, and ptychographic reconstruction algorithms solve the samples atomic structure. Our algorithms inversely solve for the multiple scattering of the electron beam and overcome the lens aberrations. For the first time, the resolution is set…

Between March 1st and 22nd, nearly 10% of all college-aged users placed pandemic anxiety as the number one concern in life, outstripping other stresses such as heartbreak and job anxiety three-to-one. An unprecedented spike in depression, anxiety and loneliness is paired with a drop in healthier interests, such as physical…

Through an installation/performance the artist Maja Smrekar reflects on the social dimension of Artificial Intelligence, questioning the power relations in terms of technological development and data sovereignty, and how these affect the relations between human and animals. “Technologies such as AI need a social dimension and not only the economy,…

Tigran Ambartsumov is developing technology for intensifying the process of germinating seeds of agricultural crops, increasing the yield of crops and minimizing yield loss during drought years.