Raj B Apte

How Socio-Physics Shapes the Future of Smart Societies As the development of the internet of things is taking up speed, connected devices produce staggering amounts of data. Estimates say that by 2020, there will be 26 times more connected things than people – devices which will produce 400 zettabytes of…

The nominating institution WZB Berlin Social Science Center on the breakthrough: COVID-19 has profound consequences for gender equality. Hipp and Allmendinger were the first ones to put this finding on the agenda of the nation’s public discourse. Various studies are now being undertaken to look into a possible re-traditionalisation. Hipp’s…

Cindy Ow transforms cancer signalling pathways into otherworldly musical opuses, highlighting cancer mutations with auditory distortions.

With increasing erratic rainfall patterns, droughts, overuse of irrigation water, degraded soils & non-productive soils, Daniela Inführ suggests using biohydrogel to protect plants from droughts and save 40% of irrigation water.

What if we agree on ADDITIONAL search Reference Schemas to Index what we know and where, and how it connects? Across Scales and Scopes, Cultures, Languages, Sign-Systems? And embody and index thematic fields and issues. Proposed a Metaparadigm and a Conceptual Superstructure (9D) for enhancing conventional search methods and detecting…

How the Internet Opens a New Era of Creative Expression Beyond Geographic, Social, Economic and Political Boundaries “Censorship is saying: ‘I’m the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.’ But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have…

PRESENTED BY Resia Pretorius NOMINATED BY Stellenbosch University Tags: Prevention, Inflammatory Diseases, Smart Sensing Solutions

How Evolutionary Biology Explains Creativity How many of our friends on Facebook or Twitter are actually posting their own texts and ideas rather than quoting someone else’s? But more importantly, what if we stopped innovating in the real world, becoming more followers than leaders, copiers rather than innovators? Mark Pagel…

Each year, thousands of people lose the ability to speak due to strokes, accidents, or disease. While there have been various attempts to restore speech to humans, science still has a long way to go. Edward Chang is a leading neurosurgeon and Weill Chair of Neurological Surgery at the University…

In this Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation, digital participants had the chance to engage in a live conversation with Nathalie Picqué, Falling Walls Breakthrough of the Year 2022 in the category of Physical Sciences. She talked about her role as a research group leader at the Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics…