The winners of the Gizmodo 2025 scientific fair

Welcome to the Gizmodo 2025 Science Fair, our annual celebration of daring research that has pushed the limits, explored a Uncharted territory and sought to make the world better. This year’s winning teams have taken big risks to pursue ambitious objectives. Their work is a powerful reminder not only why science counts, but why we love it – and why we must protect it.
Read the rest to discover a vaccine targeting a range of fungal infections, the first kite to tide on a megawatt scale in the world, a project bringing the perfumes of ancient mom to life, a cutting -edge rocket engine repelling the limits of propulsion, and much more.
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory
To produce unprecedented views of the universe using a powerful camera and to combine it with depth and speed to detect extremely low objects.
Learn more
Embarrassed
For the deployment of the first deer with operational tide on the megawatt scale.
Learn more
University of Georgia
For research on a fungi vaccine that could protect against deadly and current fungal infections.
Learn more
Alice in CERN collaboration
To transform lead into gold for a fraction of a second and taking out a new light on the strange physique which occurs inside the great collision of Hadrons.
Learn more
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
To create an atmospheric water harvesting which could improve access to drinking water in the most distant and most distant regions of the world.
Learn more
Mass and ear

To develop experimental therapy on stem cells for seriously injured cornea.
Learn more
Varda Space Industries
For having managed to launch an orbit manufacturing machine in its kind and to send it back to earth, to bring home a lot of space medication.
Learn more
Go-Eco
To develop a non -toxic replacement for chemicals forever harmful (PFAS).
Learn more
University of Ljubljana and Egyptian Museum in Cairo
To reproduce the smell of mummies of ancient Egypt.
Learn more
Aerospace Venus
For the design, construction and test of an effective new form of rocket propulsion – a rotary detonation engine.
Learn more
Bristol Myers Squibb and Karuna Therapeutics
For the research and development of Cobenfy, the first really new treatment for schizophrenia in 50 years.
Learn more
Eth Zurich, Texas A & M University, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Canadian Light Source Inc. and The Paul Scherrer Institute
To develop an environmentally friendly way to feed nuclear fusion.
Learn more
Astroscale
To develop a satellite capable of returning with orbital waste, in order to capture it and release it towards a fiery grave.
Learn more
https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2025/09/Main-1920×1280-1-1200×675.jpg