SCIENCE
LESS AFRAID OF FACTS
Nobel Prize winner in physics Ferenc Krausz and neuroscientist Thomas Gasser explain in Berlin how science makes life better. Sweden is good to promote itself as sustainable, but the reality shows the opposite: the last old-growth Forest of Europe is being destroyed irretrievable.
Forschung & Lehre
SCIENCE AT THE TARGET OF IRANIAN PROPAGANDA
To ensure that German universities are not exploited for Iranian power politics, German researchers must be vigilant.
Forschung & Lehre
LET IT HUM: TOGETHER FOR MORE BIODIVERSITY
Insect mortality is an ecological disaster. But everyone can do something for biodiversity, especially in cities: from kitchen gardens to insect boxes. And Mannheim might be the first city to enact a law in this regard.
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EXTREME RIGHTWING CONSERVSTIVE POLITICIZATION OF RESEARCH
In Poland and Hungary, extreme right-wing conservative politics are undermining academic freedom. What can Germany learn from this?
Forschung & Lehre
CHALLENGES IN CHINA RESEARCH
If you want to impart knowledge, you need first-hand data. In the case of China, however, access to reliable data is difficult.
Forschung & Lehre
JEWELLERY OUT OF SMOG
With a tower which is sucking smog out of the air Dutch innovator Daan Roosegaarde transforms smog into jewellery. Thereby he creates clean air in polluted spaces.