Psychology & Sociology

Artificial intelligence

Since generative AI requires huge, state-of-the-art data centers, the amount of e-waste could grow significantly by 2030, a study shows... more In Great Britain, a...

Significant Wadden Sea vegetation

A marine researcher focuses on the complex importance of salt marshes and...

Why false information about wind turbines persists

There are legitimate objections to wind turbines. But also many false or misleading claims. Despite knowing better, many people believe this false information. ©...

Our noses sniff out scents much better than we think

With every sniff we draw chemical compounds from the air into our nose. Our olfactory system recognizes the temporal sequence of these fragrances in...

Disappointed hopes

In many developing countries, it is very poor rural households that take out loans, like this group of women in Cambodia. Photo: Godong/Alamy/Alamy Stock Photos/mauritius...

Ways out of the antibiotic crisis

The antibiotic levofloxacin is increasingly accumulating in nature. Researchers have now developed a method with which the active ingredient can be effectively removed from...

Tailor-made medicine

Theresa Ahrens from the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering IESE in Kaiserslautern explains how disease progression and treatment success can be better predicted...

The gene scissors Crispr/Cas 9 – manipulation of the genome

Researchers have discovered a new genetic scissors that occurs naturally in animals, plants and fungi. So far, it is less effective than the bacterial...

Fascination with robots

A study shows that it is now almost impossible for people to distinguish whether texts, images and audio files were created by a human...

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