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Berlin Gesundbrunnen | Photo: AdobeStock/anweber

How Secure is Safe?! – A Germany-wide project examines how to organize safety in urban neighborhoods

Quiet suburb, hip inner city, quaint small town, multicultural urban neighborhood – for every lifestyle there is a suitable place. Why do we feel safe …
The only mounted skin of a female blue antelope can be found in the Natural History Museum Vienna. | Photo credit: NHM Vienna, Alice Schumacher

Blue and Lonesome – The rarity of blue antelopes in museum collections

Genetic research has shown that far fewer specimens of the blue antelope exist in museum collections than previously thought. An international team of …
Prof. André Kleinridders | Foto: Thomas Roese

33 Questions for Prof. André Kleinridders

Who are you? What is your current research project? What did you have for breakfast? And why did you enter the field of science? Portal Wissen wants …
Artistic representation of two inspiralling neutron stars shortly before their collision. | Image credit: N. Moldenhauer

Colliding stars reveal fundamental properties of matter and space-time

Combining various observational data of neutron-star collisions with nuclear-physics calculations, Tim Dietrich, Astrophysics Professor at the …
Levke Caesar | Photo: privat

Weakening Gulf Stream – Levke Caesar receives Publication Prize of Leibniz-Kolleg Potsdam 2020

The physicist Dr. Levke Kathrin Caesar is awarded the Publication Prize for young scientists 2020 by the Leibniz-Kolleg Potsdam. Caesar receives the …
The math app by Ulrich Kortenkamp is designed to help children understand the value of numbers. | Photo: AdobeStock/Dani

Hundreds in Bundles – A mathematics app to help children understand the place value of numbers

As with many other problems, the Covid-19 crisis is relentlessly exposing the digital deficits in many German schools and school systems. Even in …
Humboldt Fellow Gautier Nicoli (3.v.l.) does his research at the Skaergaard Intrusion, Greenland …

Seen from the root of mountains – Humboldt Fellow Gautier Nicoli links plate tectonics and the carbon cycle

As a petrologist, Gautier Nicoli deals with the occurrence, composition and formation of rocks. He collects samples of metamorphic rocks from all over …
Mask for respiratory analysis | Photo: Tobias Hopfgarten

More than a Breath of Air – Physicists and physicians develop sensor for respiratory air analysis

Together, a sports physician and a physicist set out to revolutionize a medical measuring and diagnostic procedure. Their goal is to develop an …
Artists view of mass loss from a red giant star due to gravitational pull of its solar-like companion. | Image credit: Joris Vos

Double stars tell a story about the evolution of the Milky Way

The orbits of double stars are a direct consequence of how the Milky Way evolved with time. This important observation will constrain the Galactic …
The possibilities of molecular biology are developing rapidly. | Photo: AdobeStock/ipopba

Scissors for Genetic Material – Lena Hochrein optimizes molecular methods

The possibilities of molecular biology are developing rapidly. Today, researchers are able to modify the genome of every cell quickly, economically, …