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Food Sciences
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Will yellow corn kernels pop more than white?
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Use paper chromatography to see which dyes are used in the coatings of your favorite colored candies.
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A simple statistical analysis of the frequency of colors of M&M's in a bag
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The Effectiveness of Various Preservatives on the Color of Applesauce
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Determine spectrophotometrically how much food coloring is in soda pop and Kool-Aid.
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Determine what color bell pepper (red, yellow, green) contains the greatest amount of vitamin C concentrate.
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Which amount of carbon will best decolorize apple juice?
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What is the effect of the hydrogen ion concentration on the colorants of foods?
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Engineering
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Which roofing material and color offers the best energy efficiency? Challange: a new roofing material that changes colour based on temperature?
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Find out if the colour of a house affects the temperature inside the house in different environments and which colour absorbs more or less heat.
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To determine whether bean plants, chives, or mint leaves will most suitable in a green roof.
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Which type of wood resist mold growth the best: redwood, pine wood, or white wood?
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Find how colors represented by a CMYK (Cyan-Magenta-Yellow-Black) model reflects light.
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How changing the contrast of a digital photo will change the colors and quality of the printed image.
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Investigate the relationship between the number of bits in a digital image and the number of colors and file size of the image.
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Investigate how different color profiles combine colors to produce an image.
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Does the Color of Your House Affect the Temperature Inside?
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Can the Color of Your House Reduce Your Energy Bill?
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Long and Short Wavelength Colors: Will They Balance Out Interior and Exterior Temperature and Insulation Rate?
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Green Building
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Cosmetics
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Investigate how hydrogen-peroxide based hair treatments change the color of human hair.
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The effects of a highlighting solution on various colors of hair
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Which shampoo for dyed hair keeps hair color from fading?
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Which color hair lightens fastest under the sun and under an ultraviolet bulb?
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Thin-layer chromatography vs. spectroscopy: analysis techniques of color identification in cosmetics
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Earth Sciences
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Determine if it is possible to predict the size of a geode's crystals and its inside color from its texture and color on the outside.
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Test if soil color can be used to evaluate the moisture content of the soil.
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Identify the texture, depth, color, structure, moisture, presence of rocks, roots and free carbonates in your neighborhood.
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See how weather causes and affects the sunrises and sunsets.
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Electronics
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A novel colorimeter constructed from brightness-controlled LEDs, phototransistors, and a microcontroller that interfaces with a computer.
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Color Mixing with Red, Green, & Blue LEDs
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Color Mixing with Red, Green, & Blue LEDs
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Build a color sensor
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Infra Red (IR) Remote Control Tester
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Build an Audio Light Modulator / Colored Organ (1 bulb)
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Build an Audio Light Modulator / Colored Organ (2 bulbs)
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Build an Audio Light Modulator / Colored Organ (3 bulbs)
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Infra Red (IR) Links
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Infra Red Switch
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Infra Red Remote Control Extender
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Mathematics
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Colour Image Edge Detection Using Clifford Algebra
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Determine if tests printed on colored paper would affect math test scores.
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The effects of color on the brain's ability to complete mathematical and logical problems.
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Renewable & Solar Energy
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Solar power harvesting using fruit dye solar cells
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See if green algae can be tricked into producing H(2) via photosynthesis and the optimal conditions for maximum production.
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Produce Cellobiose Dehydrogenase from fungi Trametes versicolor in a exogenous expression system, either in E.coli or in transgenic tobacco plants. The recombinant CDH obtained from this project could be used in a cellulase cocktails to more efficiently degrade lignocellulose materials.
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Determine if dye-sensitized solar cells that implement berry pigments absorb more solar energy than dye-sensitized solar cells that implement leaf pigments.
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Light effects - intensity, wavelength (color), angle of radiation - on the energy developed by a solar panel (photovoltaic cell).
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Forensic Science
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Investigate how temperature affects the blue glow created by the chemical luminol.
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Compare two colors (monochrome and contrast) and see which one is better for iris pattern analysis.
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Find if adding a substance during the cyanoacrylate fuming process will make a latent print appear in color.
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Find out if adding color in a liquid form during fuming would enhance the visibility of latent prints using the Superglue or Cyanoacrylate Fuming Method.
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Ecology
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Discover if oil in Purple Sage leaves is allelopathic and whether it inhibits the germination of the California Poppy or Fennel the most drastically.
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Microbiology
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The Effects of Different Colored Lights on Algal Oxygen Production
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Environmental Sciences
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Use a Color-based Test to Measure the Concentration of Iron in Water
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Inducing Anaerobic Conditions for Hydrogen Production in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (a single celled green alga)
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Try to reduce the amount of phosphate and nitrate in water in order to reduce the amount of blue green algae blooms.
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The Effects of Environmental Nitrite Levels on the Reproductive Success of Purple Sea Urchins
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Greenhouse Effect & Greenhouse Gases
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Genetics
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Use the patterns of fur color in tortoiseshell cats to determine if X chromosomes are inactivated in a random or in an allele-dependent manner.
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Using a Punnett square to help in acheiving the desired results when breeding Polish rabbits with specific color patterns.
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Biochemistry
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Understanding Color Development in Citrus
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Botany
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Botany (Plant and Flower Pigments and Colors)
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Chemistry
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Why is snow white?
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Dyes, Paints and Colors
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Zoology
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Use DNA Sequencing to Trace the Blue Whale's Evolutionary Tree
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Animal Color Vision
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Behavioral Sciences / Psychology
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Behavioral Sciences & Psychology
The Stroop Effect
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Physics
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Physics of Color
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Medicine
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Color Perception and Vision
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Future Science
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An injection of antibodies that would react with the skin cancer cells and make a patch of blue show up on your hand. This would help diagnose skin cancer a lot quicker and easier.
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