Psychology & Sociology

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...

Ultrafast lasers for material processing

Enormous Potential: Laser technology could even enable the development of a 3D...

Tracking gene-associated diseases using AI

How are certain symptoms linked to peculiarities in the genetic makeup? A...

Hybrid working models make employees and bosses happier

In particular, female employees, employees without management functions and those with long commutes benefit from the opportunity to work from home part-time. © AsiaVision...

Our Moon

Radioactivity at an ancient volcano on Earth's satellite raises questions. And how did a huge granite formation form underground?... more The Artemis program for the...

The life of the Neanderthals

Researchers have found traces of an adhesive mixture of bitumen and ocher on stone tools that are more than 40,000 years old and were...

On the hunt for exoplanets

The James Webb Space Telescope has provided clues to the cause of the extremely bloated atmosphere of a Neptune-like exoplanet... more The Webb Telescope has...

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