Zeinab Khalil

Distance Learning: How low-tech solutions help to make education accessible for everyone Education is key for economic advancement as well as social stability. However, providing quality education is especially challenging in countries that lack infrastructure, learning materials and trained teachers. UNESCO estimates that 617 million school-age children around the world…

Ferenc Krausz: Breaking The Wall To Attoseconds – Falling Walls Science Summit 2023 Physicist Ferenc Krausz, head of the Max Plank Institute of Quantum Physics since 2003, was awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on attosecond physics. His research has provided new insights into the behavior…

The human brain is certainly the most complex known object in the universe. It is the control centre of our entire being, the seat of our consciousness, and yet we do not fully understand how it works. These mysteries are the essence of neuroscience: how does the human brain work?…

The strongest source of free encyclopaedic knowledge is Wikipedia, which currently contains about 6.458.000 articles in English. At the same time, the switch from analogue to digital TV signals and the development of flat screens have made myriads of tube TVs obsolete. A smart combination of these devices can help…

Tina Taskovic argues that Li-ion batteries will be the devices that decarbonize our energy infrastructure, but they need to last longer for them to be affordable for the present and sustainable for the future. New electrolyte formulations and using tactics to avoid known issues in cells are key for long-lived…

Jóse-Alain Sahel elaborated one patient’s journey from having sight, losing it and slowly regaining it after 20 years. He was sharing insights on the process that involves an innovative use of gene therapy, stimulating goggles and lots of training to restore vision for retinal regression.

Graphite as it occurs in pencils is a brittle material that does not exactly spur the imagination, but modified into a two-dimensional web of hexagonal structures, it gains extraordinary superpowers. Graphene, a nanomaterial discovered in 2004, is 200 times stronger than steel, conducts both electricity and heat, and is almost…

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…

Background and Aim In Japan, it has been noted that interest in science declines as the school year progresses. According to the 2019 TIMSS results, the percentage of elementary and middle school students who say “studying science is fun” declined as they reached middle school, falling below the international average…

Biotech Innovation in Europe and Germany Falling Walls Circle Tables are lending the spotlight to world-leading scientists, science strategists and policy-makers from academia, business and politics discuss how we can apply science, research and innovation to get the world moving again. How could Europe create a global ‘hotspot’ of biotech…