5. How Nanotechnologies Influence Nature?
Laura’s project that’s up next on our list of winning science fair projects for high school deals with the possible effects of nanotechnologies, or nanoparticles more specifically, on nature as well as humans. The initial belief was that nanoparticles have a hazardous effect not only on particular organisms but on their surroundings, too. She conducted an experiment with beans watered with only water as opposed to beans watered with colloidal nanogold solutions. The latter ones grew much faster than beans watered with water. She then took samples of the dehydrated soil where the beans grew and examined them. She concluded that nanoparticles were digested by plants. Laura was one of the finalists at Google Science Fair in 2015.
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