Scientific field Biology Country Portugal Contestants Share this Post
Lung-on-a-chip Device
Scientific field Materials Country Poland Contestants Maciej Marcel Mańka Share this Post
Amber drug. A study of the antibacterial action of extracts of fossil and subfossil resins
By ages, amber was a prized commodity desired mainly for its beauty and used in jewellery. It was considered curiosity because of its electrostatic properties and was also believed to have medicinal properties against many ailments. Thus, the English...
Colouring of the plane, lines and circles
- juillet 5, 2016
- Mathematics, Poland
Tasks about colouring often occurs in mathematics, e.g. the four colour map theorem or the chromatic number of the plane. My problem begins with a case from Mathematical Olympiad: how many colours at most we can use to colour...
Paris, 17 October 1961
- juillet 5, 2016
- Norway, Social sciences
Scientific field Social sciences Country Norway Contestants Idunn Maria Brosset Share this Post
Investigation of salinity impact on rate and amplitude of the seasonal water temperature changes in a fjord in Western Norway
This study in physics of fjords and lakes investigates the impact of salinity on density stratification. The hypothesis of a fjord being more stratified and warming/cooling faster than a freshwater lake is formulated. Data is gathered using a kayak,...
Motivic Symbols and Classical Multiplicative Functions
- juillet 5, 2016
- Mathematics, Norway
The notion of a multiplicative function is one of the central building blocks of modern number theory, and were studied by Euler, Gauss and Ramanujan among others. Classical multiplicative functions work as machines giving key information about various properties...
The electromagnetic car
- juillet 5, 2016
- Luxembourg, Physics
Scientific field Physics Country Luxembourg Contestants Share this Post
Acetobacter spp. bacteria producing biopolymers simultaneously
The products of chemical industry (plastics, resin, etc.) are produced from non-renewable natural resources and therefore heavily pollute the environment. For this reason they should be superseded with biodegradable and biocompatible biopolymers having plastic-like properties such as cellulose and...
Antimicrobial bacteriophage dressing in chronic wound treatment
Irreparable effects on health, even death cases, caused by chronic wounds, are due to the deficiency of antimicrobials against pathogenic biofilm producing bacteria, coupled with the sunset of the antibiotics era. We have developed a new, highly efficient method...