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Rare-earth elements have distinct properties that make them vital to the electronics and energy sectors. However, the current method of their extraction remains highly toxic and unsustainable. Arshia Mostoufi proposes using a novel biological-based system for the cost-effective and environmentally friendly extraction of rare-earth elements from metal ores using a…

How Intelligent Accountability Can Stop Bureaucratic Excess and Improve Governance Over the last years of financial disasters on a global scale, we often heard the mantra “we need to build trust in the institutions” – this being the very essence of our economic and political systems. Professor O’Neill, a leading…

The nominating institution FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg on the breakthrough: Imagine reading books without opening them. This old dream now comes true in the lab of AI researcher Andreas Maier at FAU, Germany. He uses this magic for fragile historic documents with inaccessible secrets between the walls of their book covers. Technologies…

Launched during the summer 2019 as a NGO based in Paris, Just One Giant Lab (JOGL.io) is the first research and innovation laboratory operating as a distributed, open and massive mobilisation online platform for collaborative task solving. At JOGL, we believe in the power of open-source community-led approaches to address…

The project consists of involving disadvantaged populations in the design of smart drones with the aim of demystifying the tools of new technology in the eyes of everyone and encouraging the power of science. Also to encourage them to create impact around them. Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Citizen Science, Digitalisation, Education,…

Ocean Solutions for the Climate Crisis – Falling Walls Circle Round Table 2023 This panel discussion will focus on ocean-centred climate change mitigation and adaptation solutions. The potential of the ocean for accelerating decarbonisation merits prioritisation in the global climate-change discourse. The ocean presents substantial climate mitigation and carbon storage…

I developed a relatively low-cost, low energy input process to make valuable products from mining wastes, which has the potential to achieve carbon neutral mining operations.   Tag: Climate change, Environment & Nature, Green Tech

In this Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation, digital participants had the chance to engage in a live conversation with Sunil Amrith, Falling Walls Breakthrough of the Year 2022 in the category of Social Sciences and Humanities. He talked about his work as a historian of South and Southeast Asia, his appeal…

The M890 holds a pressure vessel of highly compressed carbon dioxide that it delivers to the target fire. This acts to suppress the fire by pushing oxygen away from the ground smothering the fire. Tags: Climate change, Engineering, Environment & Nature.

Roman Fasel obtained his PhD in Physics in 1996 from the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) and joined Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, after post-doctoral research fellowships at La Trobe University (Melbourne) and the Fritz-Haber-Institute (Berlin). He is the head of the nanotech@surfaces Laboratory of Empa,…