Robert Arlinghaus

How Responsive Nanomaterials Take Medicine to the Next Level Self-destruction mechanisms are not only a frequent feature of action movies, they are also the next big thing in nanomedicine. Think of tiny capsules that overcome complex barriers of the body and eventually dissolve, releasing substances to specific places – and…

Agnieszka Zuchowska is developing a novel in vitro tool that will largely reproduce the features of the in vivo environment, and thus increase the reliability of the results obtained in preclinical studies.

I tell the story of the NASA Space Pen in 60 seconds. It starts out by saying “What you’ve been told about the NASA Space Pen is a lie”

Professor Heidi J. Larson is the Founding Director of The Vaccine Confidence Project and Professor of Anthropology, Risk and Decision Science at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; Clinical Professor, Department of Health Metrics Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle; and Guest Professor at the University of Antwerp and…

Young Tinker Academy is a tinker space where school students collaborate and learn hands-on skills of the future. We work with indigenous communities to build tinker spaces for students and youths with content in the vernacular Indian languages. We have impacted the lives of 1,50,000+ students and youths in rural…

How Architecture can provoke New Thoughts The economic impact of buildings with a high ‘wow factor’ on cities like Bilbao, Manchester and Chicago has brought back in vogue the debate on the role of architects in society, and produced neologisms such as ‘starchitect’ with regard to their media relevance. With…

With his pitch, Niklas Wendel proposes a solution the the space debris problem: A technology which uses forces from the natural environment to remove debris from orbit and is cost-effective enough to be scaled to the size of the challenge.

Taking third place was Srilahari Namani of India. She presented a computer-aided method to rapidly identify different species of mosquitos which can be used locally to prevent diseases transmitted by mosquitos.

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