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Claudia Siesquén Deza is creating awareness about a low cost technology to preserve food: evaporative cooling. Her product, CoolK Refri, is a fridge made of clay that works without electricity.

Where Physics and Life Meet at the Nanoscale In philosophy, the sanskrit concept of  Māyā alludes to the illusion created by the limits of our physical senses which prevent us from seeing reality in its deepest essence. If science could tear this veil, what would the world look like and…

The nominating institution Eucon Group on the breakthrough: Eucon drives digital transformation in claims management. Smart Claims enables insurance companies to simplify and accelerate a previously tedious manual process. The policyholder digitally appraises the damage and transmits the claim in a structured and digital form. The documents are classified and…

About the project Adventure in the Plants Kingdom is part of a project funded by National Geographic’s COVID-19 Remote Learning Emergency Fund for Educators Grant. The idea was to equip primary and secondary school learners with an explorer mindset and skills that enable them to discover their surroundings in ways…

Deep ocean extreme environments – sites of immense beauty, wonder and intrigue – harbor unique and unimagined microorganisms that thrive at radically different pressure, temperature, salinity, and pH regimes compared to those on land or in the surface ocean. State-of-the-art genomic and computational approaches will guide targeted discovery of unique…

Mai-Thi’s presentation, “Breaking the Wall of the Human Cell”, focused on the latest breakthroughs in cancer research: Nano transporters breaking through the outer walls of cells in order to efficiently channel medical agents to the inside. As it attacks only cancer cells while leaving healthy cells unharmed, this method will…

An on-site, low-cost infrared spectral analyzer that determines the nutrients present in the soil for 1/26th of the price of other high-tech soil nutrient analyzers available in the market.   Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Climate change, Education, Engineering, Food & Agriculture, Green Tech, Social Cohesion, Precision Agriculture.

Sherwood Lollar brings together hydrogeology and isotope geochemistry to challenge understandings of the role of water in planetary subsurfaces. Her work explores the physical and chemical controls on subsurface architecture by tracking the fate of carbon-bearing fluids and gases in ancient fracture waters in the Earth’s crust. Her project on…

Marius Wiggert and his team have developed advanced control algorithms that enable large structures to hitchhike on ocean currents for reliable, very low energy ocean autonomy, requiring 1000x less energy than classic approaches.

Nominated by: Brian Schmidt, Australian National University Presented by: Christian Freier