by Marten Steppat With the Aqualight we glided quickly and elegantly over the water without the water surface being touched by the vehicle. The sun burned hot down on us, but its light broke hypnotically …
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Quantum in LEDs – let there be light!
Cost-effective, efficient and durable – light-emitting diodes or LEDs for short have almost completely replaced conventional light bulbs. But what is behind the miracle lamps? Plain and simple: (quantum) physics! After we have dealt in …
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Old and young 2119 – the world in 100 years!
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The victory of reason and science – the world in a hundred years!
by Petr Kripeit At the beginning of the 21st century, the world looked chaotic. Some people fled from war and poverty, the decadence of the rich countries had only shrunk briefly. How did we manage …
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“Great again”? No, thanks!
What will the historians of the future call our epoch? As the ages of reorganization? As the epoch of social hysteria or distorted perception? As incipient post-capitalism? Facts versus alternative facts We live in parallel …
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Pig brains revived! Is brain death reversible?
Our brain is a wonder of nature. The control center in our head makes us who we are: It controls our thinking, our movements, processes sensory impressions and regulates our basic body functions. Unfortunately, our …
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Alexa alone at home
by Leonie Bachmaier What does my Alexa do when she’s alone? While an apartment owner near Hamburg was not at home, his virtual assistant “Alexa” caused a lot of trouble. She threw a party without …
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Fully automatic self-healing – the world in a hundred years
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Money and luck: Not a dream team?
World trip, own workshop, dream house, commitment to a project without having to make a living or help other people: People’s dreams of happiness are as varied as they are themselves. Is it possible to …
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A journey into the small universe: great quanta!
Wouldn’t it be fascinating to be in several places at once? In our everyday life this seems hard to imagine, and yet such effects occur on the scale of the smallest particles, the atoms and …