Pei-Ying Lin

‘Canticum Megapterae’ is a collaborative electronic music album inspired by the beauty and structure of humpback whale songs, and aiming at raising awareness of other intelligent species. By combining science and art, the project’s purpose is to break the walls between different disciplines, and between human and animal cultures. The…

The WWF 2°Campus selects 20 participants from 15 to 19 years old every year to conduct joint research projects for climate change mitigation. In groups of 5 and supported by scientific mentors from our partner universities, the students work on problems regarding energy, mobility, food and housing. They consult literature,…

Science Escape Room offers a non-traditional engaging learning experience in different fields of science. Science Escape Room is a virtual room in which science is an amazing experience to explore. Students are encouraged to take an active role in order to develop their science knowledge and computer skills. They learn…

At Kvark Science Show, science meets entertainment and collaborates to create an event never before seen in Europe. The main goal of the show was branding knowledge as a superpower thus making STEAM more interesting and intriguing to students, children, and adults. During the show, two performers displayed and explained…

How Consumers, Politics, Business and Investors Can Advance Sustainable, Fair and Efficient Water Use Water is humanity’s most valuable resource – every human being on the planet depends on clean water for survival. It is also the key element for economic development: virtually every production process, from agriculture to manufacturing…

Aerogels are a class of solid materials with outstanding properties, a consequence of their open porous 3D nanostructure. They demonstrate promising results for pollution filtering and lightweight vehicle insulation, as well as for advanced battery systems in sustainable mobility. With the support of simulation and digitization for reverse engineering, the…

In this Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation with Philippe Tanguy, 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.…

I built a web app that allows people to help survey the trees in the cities, identify their species, keep track of their growth and help scientists to understand how trees react to climate change. With a simple formula, we calculate an approximate value of their Carbon fixation and he…

A platform for high-quality journal-independent peer-review in the life sciences. Review Commons was created by EMBO and ASAPbio to provide expert peer review of preprints before they are submitted to a journal. The process is handled by professional scientific editors, who ensure that reviewers are qualified and have no conflicts…

McDonald is a visual artist working in painting, drawing, film and sound. Her works explore the origins of life on the planet and the information held within plant life. In ‘A space and time outside,’ she investigates Herbarium plant specimens brought back from the 1825 Franklin Arctic Expedition to explore germination and the potential…