Open research
30 questions we want to answer with you
Open topics in space, medicine, engineering and AI, looking for researchers, students, engineers and partners. They are proposals, not finished studies: pick one and build it with us.
- Space
AI detection of near-Earth asteroids in open telescope data
Use machine learning on public survey images and alert streams to find faint, fast-moving near-Earth asteroids that today's pipelines miss, and report them through the official channels.
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Mapping water ice on the Moon for future bases
Combine the public archives of lunar missions into one open, machine-learning map of where water ice is most likely to be found near the Moon's poles, and rank sites where it could be reached and used.
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Low-cost CubeSats for climate monitoring in the Middle East
Design a small satellite mission, and the ground network around it, that measures what matters most for the region's climate (dust, heat and water) and fills gaps left by large international satellites.
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Tracking space debris with amateur telescopes and machine learning
Build a network of low-cost optical stations and an open machine-learning pipeline that detects satellites and debris in images, measures their positions and improves public orbit knowledge.
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Growing food in Martian soil simulants
Grow crops in laboratory copies of Martian soil, find the cheapest ways to make that soil fertile and safe, and apply the lessons to degraded and desert soils on Earth.
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Quasars as cosmic lighthouses: mapping the early universe
Use machine learning on public sky surveys to find the most distant quasars, and use their light, filtered by the gas it crosses, to map how the young universe filled with light and structure.
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What microgravity does to muscle and bone, and what it teaches us about patients on Earth
Compare open data from spaceflight and from immobilised patients and volunteers to find the shared biology of muscle and bone loss, and the countermeasures most likely to help people on Earth.
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Searching for signs of life in exoplanet atmospheres with open JWST data
Build an open, reproducible pipeline that analyses public James Webb Space Telescope spectra of exoplanet atmospheres, and tests how confident any claim of a sign of life can really be.
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Mental health and paralysis: the link and the path to recovery
Study how depression, anxiety, stress and resilience relate to living with paralysis, and how psychological support affects recovery and quality of life, starting with a systematic review and a study design built with…
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Screening for diabetic eye disease from smartphone photos with AI
Develop and clinically validate an AI system that grades diabetic retinopathy from retina photos taken with low-cost smartphone adapters, so that screening can reach clinics without specialist cameras or eye doctors.
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Brain–computer interfaces to restore movement after spinal cord injury
Build and test a low-cost, non-invasive brain–computer interface that reads the intention to move from EEG and drives electrical stimulation of the arm and hand, to support rehabilitation after spinal cord injury.
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Early signs of Alzheimer's in the way we speak
Study whether changes in speech and language can flag early cognitive decline, building the first carefully consented speech dataset in Arabic and testing models that work across languages.
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Mobile psychological support for children in conflict zones
Adapt evidence-based psychological programmes for children and their caregivers into a safe, offline-capable mobile format guided by trained lay helpers, and test whether it is feasible and helpful where specialists…
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Low-cost 3D-printed prosthetic hands
Design, test and fit an open-source, 3D-printed hand that is controlled by muscle signals, costs a fraction of commercial devices, and is durable enough for daily life, with users and clinicians involved at every step.
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Finding new antibiotics against resistant bacteria with AI
Use machine learning to screen large public libraries of molecules for antibacterial activity against priority drug-resistant bacteria, and confirm the best candidates in a partner microbiology laboratory.
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Sleep, screens and mental health in teenagers
Measure how evening screen use, sleep and mood relate in teenagers using phones' own data and wearables with consent, and test a simple, family-friendly change to evening habits.
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Solar-powered water desalination for small communities
Design, build and test a small desalination unit that runs directly on solar power without batteries, for villages, clinics and schools that depend on salty groundwater, and measure its real cost per litre.
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Earthquake-resilient homes at low cost
Test low-cost ways to make common masonry and concrete homes in the region far less likely to collapse in earthquakes, with shake-table and computer tests, and train local builders to apply them.
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Drones that find survivors under collapsed buildings
Develop a low-cost drone kit with thermal and acoustic sensors and on-board AI that helps rescue teams search collapse sites faster, and test it with rescuers in realistic exercises.
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Rebuilding with recycled rubble: new construction materials
Turn the rubble of destroyed buildings into safe, tested building materials, such as blocks, pavers and concrete aggregates, cutting rebuilding costs and waste, with strict screening for hazards.
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Smart irrigation with low-cost sensors for dry farmland
Give small farmers simple irrigation advice from low-cost soil sensors, weather data and satellite images, and measure in field trials how much water it saves without lowering yields.
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Off-grid microgrids that keep hospitals running
Design, size and test solar-and-battery microgrids that keep the critical services of clinics and hospitals running through outages, with monitoring that proves their reliability and cost.
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Harvesting drinking water from the humidity in the air
Compare fog nets, solar-driven sorbent harvesters and condensation devices in the region's real climates, and find which gives safe drinking water at the lowest cost per litre for homes, schools and remote sites.
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An open, multilingual AI assistant for makers
Adapt open-weight language models into an assistant that helps people plan and build websites, apps and games in their own language, evaluated openly in twelve languages, as the first step of the Quasova SI model.
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Detecting misinformation on social media in every language
Build open tools that help fact-checkers find check-worthy claims and match them with existing fact-checks across languages, with people, not algorithms, deciding what is true.
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AI tutors for children who cannot reach a school
Design an offline-capable AI tutor for basic reading and maths on low-cost phones, built on methods that already work in classrooms, and test with families and educators whether children actually learn.
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Real-time sign language translation with a phone camera
Work with Deaf communities to build a phone app that recognises a focused vocabulary of Arabic sign language in real time for everyday situations, such as clinic reception, starting from honest, consented data.
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AI that designs game levels players love
Combine procedural generation with models of player experience to create game levels that are playable, varied and fun, and test them with real players in Quasova's own games.
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Small, energy-efficient AI models that run on cheap phones
Measure what useful AI can run offline on low-cost phones, in many languages, and how much energy and memory it costs, then make it better through compression and distillation.
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Fair AI: measuring bias across languages and cultures
Build culturally grounded tests, written by native speakers, that measure how AI models treat people, places and customs across many languages and cultures, and publish open results and mitigation methods.
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