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Keeping Cool During a Heat Wave – How cities can better cope with climate change
Heat waves, thunderstorms, hail, and heavy rainfall - extreme weather events are becoming increasingly common. Such events pose an enormous challenge... more
Healing Spirit – Psychologist Prof. Petra Warschburger investigates what helps chronically ill children and adolescents cope with psychosocial stress
Having diabetes already as a child - and also being depressed? Teenagers with juvenile arthritis who become aggressive? For some children and... more
The mediacal treasure trove of nature – Chemists from Potsdam and their African colleagues are researching new active substances from plants
Nature provides an abundance of medically effective substances. Only a fraction of them is known so far. Especially in poorer countries, where very... more
Understanding and Deciding – The Harding Center for Risk Literacy now researches in Potsdam
What are the risks of a diagnosis using artificial intelligence, of health information websites or of health apps? The Harding Center for Risk... more
Good News – How data science helps us to better understand the Coronavirus pandemic
The pandemic caused by the Coronavirus starting back in late 2019 still affects the lives of billions of people around the globe even half a year... more