The world's largest high school science research competition, the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) announced its top winners. Jack Andraka received the Gordon E. Moore Award, a $75,000 prize, for a new method to detect pancreatic cancer based on diabetic test paper. Two Intel Foundation Young Scientist Awards winners — Nicholas Schiefer and Ari Dyckovsky each received prizes of $50,000. Nicholas studied what he calls “microsearch,” or the ability to search small amounts of content, such as tweets and Facebook status updates. Ari investigated the science of quantum teleportation. He found that once atoms are linked through a process called “entanglement,” information from one atom will just appear in another atom when the quantum state of the first atom is destroyed. Using this method, organizations requiring high levels of data security, could send an encrypted message without running the risk of interception because the information would not travel to its new location; it would simply appear there. This year, more than 1,500 young scientists were chosen to compete in the Intel ISEF. They were selected from 446 affiliate fairs in approximately 70 countries, regions and territories. __
