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In this Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation, digital participants had the chance to engage in a live conversation with Sunil Amrith, Falling Walls Breakthrough of the Year 2022 in the category of Social Sciences and Humanities. He talked about his work as a historian of South and Southeast Asia, his appeal…

Nominated by: Obi Felten, Flourish Labs Presented by: Leroy Cronin

Waliyat A. Kola-Aderoju’s project is an intersection of making learning fun and easy for children and teaching them about helping the immediate environment become a cleaner and safer place for other organisms.

How Open Journalism Saves Publishing in the Digital Age The decline of many major international print outlets – due to their difficulties in adapting to the ways information is shared and consumed online today – is not news, but continues having dramatic effects on the traditional regional and global media…

In radiology, how can we reduce the entrance surface dose while keeping the obtained image acceptability for routine radiographic examinations to improve diagnosis quality? Hamza Sekkat uses a phantom and solid-state detector/multisensor to optimize the radiation dose and image quality by selecting image parameters that give an acceptable one with…

Detecting malignant cancer cells in very early stages in order to provide treatment long before tumours spread across the body is something patients, doctors, and public health officials have been looking forward to for a long time. A novel diagnostics technique might make this dream come true and save millions…

Anupama Kundoo: Breaking the Wall to Humane Architecture – Falling Walls Science Summit 2023 India faces several unsustainable practices in its architecture and urban development, including rapid urban sprawl, water scarcity, energy inefficiency, lack of green spaces, challenges in historical preservation, informal settlements, and inadequate disaster resilience. These issues result…

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…

Mobilising the power of innovation to address societal and environmental challenges. The Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium (TIPC) was established in 2017 as a five-year global knowledge platform, coordinated by the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex, the Centre for Global Challenges at Utrecht University, and Ingenio in…

Solace is an anonymous peer to peer, personalized mental health support platform to drastically bring down the cost of treatment and make it accessible to everyone through a B2B model.