You've heard "if walls could talk," but 11-year-old Nikita Rafikov wondered "what if your walls were alive?" In his House of the Future, the walls are very much alive. He combines magnetic gel with a green fluorescent protein from a jellyfish to get a mobile wall and lighting. The idea landed him in the finals of the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge.

My Big Idea: Living Walls

You've heard "if walls could talk," but 11-year-old Nikita Rafikov wondered "what if your walls were alive?" In his House of the Future, the walls are very much alive. He combines magnetic gel with a green fluorescent protein from a jellyfish to get a mobile wall and lighting. The idea landed him in the finals of the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge.

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