Illustration Corinna Heumann, Text Bernhard Fischer Plant products without overexploitation of nature? “Ex Planta and In Vitro 2121: A glance at the clock – where is the dealer for the tropical woods? He should be …
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Fine furniture made of tropical wood without any overexploitation – is that possible?
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Also, but not only for disabled people: Active without contact.
Illustration Angela Smets/ Text Susanne Gold In the 1974 film The Six Million Dollar Man, a man who was barely alive was reassembled. What was science fiction at the time is now increasingly reality. We …
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Sensitive as humans. Portable magnetic skin.
Illustration Corinna Heumann / Text Susanne Gold A hand that delicately strokes the soft material of a piece of velvet, feels the landing of a butterfly or tenderly grips the hand of another: Feeling – …
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The voices in our head and the stars in the sky – is everything we have learned wrong?
Measurements prove that only what passes through the filters in our brain can penetrate our consciousness. Only when synchronously firing nerve cells react to an object in our field of vision does a reality appear …
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Self-discipline?
How do self-disciplined people manage to win the battle against their7n inner bastard? Kentaro Fujita, who is researching self-discipline at Ohio State University, believes that they do not fight at all. They simply enjoy the …
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How do marine researchers research?
One imagines that marine researchers are out at sea in all weathers. But today the oceans are explored with sophisticated technology. Marine researchers often sit in front of a computer – in front of digital …
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Explore unknown worlds and life forms with autonomous robots
One world in the world – microbes in the ocean They are almost everywhere and yet almost invisible. Microbes in the ocean probably spread and produce half of the oxygen in our atmosphere. It is …
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The effect of light – learning from biology for digitalisation
540 million years ago, numerous new species suddenly emerged explosively in the oceans. A spectacular accumulation of biological novelties. Within a few years, new life forms and body shapes, organs and strategies for attack and …
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Jinxed! The theory of emergent gravity – and dark energy
As soon as I wrote about the “Energy Utopia of Perpetuum Mobile” in my blog, I have to read something about the “Theory of Emergent Gravity”. A new theory comes from Erik Verlinde, a Dutch …