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In this Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation, digital participants had the chance to engage in a live conversation with Anthony Hyman, winner of the Körber European Science Prize 2022. He talked about his research on the role of phase separation in the formation of biological compartments and how it can help…

Huiming Bu was talking about humanity’s attempts to keep up with and surpass Moore’s law. In IBM’s case, that entails decreasing the size of chips while increasing their performance and energy consumption. Stacking the chips on a three dimensional plane will improve their efficiency and power the next generations of…

Markus Rex and Stefanie Arndt have respectively led and participated in the MOSAiC expedition. Between 2019 and 2020 the German icebreaker Polarstern spent a year drifting through the Arctic Ocean trapped in ice. The goal was to improve the understanding of the full seasonal cycle of processes and interactions in…

Francesca Fragkoudi received the award for the Falling Walls Engage Science Engagement of the Year 2018 for the project Columba-Hypatia. This is a science outreach project which takes place on the post-conflict island of Cyprus, with the aim of using astronomy as a tool for promoting meaningful communication and a…

Unlocking the Mysteries of the Cell – Falling Walls Circle Round Table 2023 In this roundtable discussion a multidisciplinary group of experts will share their perspectives on how collaborations using state-of-the-art genomic, open science, and imaging technologies are providing new insights into human biology and how these fundamental discoveries will…

Project FUEL documents, designs and passes on human wisdom from all ages and backgrounds across the world; using the tools of education, art, media and events. Our methodology has been recognised as one of the world’s top 100 innovations in education by Finland based organisation HundrED and recently adopted by…

Science support for political volunteers. Tags: Circular Economy, Climate change, Environment & Nature, Food & Agriculture, Science Communication, Science Policy, Social Cohesion, Trust in science.

‘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…

Malaria deaths are rising, in part because the parasites which cause the disease are evolving resistance to our frontline drug treatments. Merryn Fraser argues that we need new ways to target these parasites and suggests taking advantage of essential biological pathways to deliver drugs directly to parasites, improving existing antimalarial…

Atmospheric Forest is an immersive VR artwork by artist duo Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits, visualising relations between forest emissions and climate change. It is based on Swiss climate scientist studies on ancient Alpine forests suffering from drought. The VR viewer gets immersed in a laser scanned forest with animated…