A conversation with future expert Franz Kühmayer. Will digitization make people redundant in many jobs? For Franz Kühmayer from the Zukunftsinstitut the...
HILDA + land use map for 2019 (Image: Karina Winkler / KIT
People leave their “footprint” on the earth's land through agriculture, clearing forests or...
A questioning look at medical genetic engineering. (Image: Natali_Mis / iStock)
Healing with “genetic scissors”, therapies with “tailor-made” cells and babies with “optimized” genes:...
How has our spoken language developed? (Image: peterschreiber.media/iStock)
If we do not speak a language, we are known to speak with hands and feet...
Radiation outbreak near Proxima Centauri (illustration) (Image: NRAO / S. Dagnello)
The red dwarf star Proxima Centauri is our closest neighbor in space, so its...
You have a vaccination appointment or want to have your vaccination status checked, but have lost your vaccination certificate: Find out what you should...
Metal fragments like these finds from the Tollensetal in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania could have served as money in the late Bronze Age. (Photo: Volker...
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A new process for inactivating “dead vaccines” enables vaccines to be produced faster, more environmentally friendly and more efficiently than before.
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Researchers have shown possible damage to symbiosis systems in insects through studies on flat grain beetles. (Photo: Backiris / iStock)
The focus is mostly...
Not only was Gaius Julius Caesar extremely self-confident and power-hungry, he also mastered the art of marketing himself. The best evidence: his work...
Tiny particles on fossil teeth can reveal insights into the history of human-microbial interactions. (Image: Werner Siemens Foundation, Felix Wey)
The bacteria in our...
Researchers have experimentally made zebra finches stutter. (Image: thawats / iStock)
Millions of people suffer from stuttering, but little is known about the causes...
Rough-skin bats probably orient themselves on their long-distance journeys using a magnetic sense located in the corneas of their eyes. (Image: Oliver Lindecke...
Angkor Wat temple. (Image: RM Nunes / iStock)
Using archaeological excavation data, historical reports and maps, and modern laser scanning results, researchers have modeled...