Announcing Our 2024 Finalists
Congratulations to the seven finalists who will be competing for the Grand Prize during a live presentation round in November:
AstroAnt: A Miniature Symbiotic Robotic Serving on the Outside Surfaces of Spacecraft, Rovers, and Landers for Inspection and Diagnostic Tasks
Cosmetic Silica Upcycled from Rice Husk as Natural Alternative to Microplastic Powders
Laser-Generated Anti-Icing and Anti-Fogging Transparent Materials
Multi-Modal Traffic Detection System
NETrolyze: A Novel Immunotherapy for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
RHOBARR Barrier Dispersions Platform
Thin-Film Thermoelectric Cooling Device
Watch this space for more announcements, including the Top 100 entries and Top Ten most popular.
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Spinal cord injury affects 17,000 Americans and 700,000 people worldwide each year. A research team at NeuroPair, Inc. won the Grand Prize in the 2023 Create the Future Design Contest for a revolutionary approach to spinal cord repair. In this Here’s an Idea podcast episode, Dr. Johannes Dapprich, NeuroPair’s CEO and founder, discusses their groundbreaking approach that addresses a critical need in the medical field, offering a fast and minimally invasive solution to a long-standing problem.
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Every year, hundreds of thousands of women become ill with ovarian cancer. A large number of malignant forms are caused by a virus that alters the metabolism in the infected cells. The virus promotes the release of specific proteins stimulating the dividing of the cells.
The Saucer-Kush and Mothership-Jedia, shown in Figs.1&2, are a New Flying Object (NFO) propelled by the External Magnetic Field-Propulsion System (ExMF-PS); based on the Universal Energies (UE), derived from the new fundamental physics (http://exmfpropulsions.com).
A fixture is a device used for holding the workpiece during the machining operation, more versatile to work as specialized machine tool even with the advancement of manufacturing industries. There is a continued use of fixture either in same form or other,
The use of water coolers has increased and become an important appliance in the world of global warming. Most of the coolers are electrically operated. In this study an experimental setup of evaporative water cooler using solar energy is designed and developed.
A non-surgical invasive way for cardiac myocytes experiencing arrhythmia may be achievable with an enhanced magnetic field across the cardiac myocyte depolarization pacemaker action potential electrophysics. The attached charted graph--see mA/mmsquared vs.
Heavy trucks are considered aerodynamically inefficient compared with many of the other ground vehicles due to their unstreamlined body shapes with more than 60% of the engine power required to overcome aerodynamics drag at highway cruising speeds.
Spillage free conveyor basically used to eliminate the factor of dust particles during conveying of soap via conveyor belts.
Benefits:
power saving
Less friction
breakdown free
Basically, in this conveyor,
In the large cities of emerging economies, with a typical population exceeding 10 million, a scheme for assured, demand-rated, smart potable pipeline water supply to the individual households is a pressing requirement. The current practice is heavily manual driven,
Inexpensive, Simple and Safe System to Prevent Aircraft Fuel-tank Explosion
Since 1990, three aircraft, manufactured in USA, have exploded due to combustion in the fuel-tank. In 1996, Trans World Airways (TWA) Flight 800 explosion caused 230 deaths. National Transport Safety Board (NTSB) listed “
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