Beyond Science

What does the future of research look like?

A Dangerous Game of Hide-and-Seek

It is a race against time: more and more bacteria are developing resistance to antibiotics. How do they do that? Molecular biologist Tanmay ...

Scientific research and lab products: How important is the past for the future?

How can we age more healthily in the future?

A Flourishing Life

Nature provides us with health and happiness; it has been hailed as a teacher and healer for millennia by peoples all over world. The chirp ...

Back to Nature!

The global community is declaring war on the extinction of species. The goal: by 2050, humans are to find their way back to a “life in harmo ...

Castles Made of Sand: Coral Reefs and their Symbionts

Towering coral, vibrant with color, and teeming with life is a common image when thinking of coral reefs. Scores of fish, sharks, sea turtle ...

Bacteria Versus Body Cells

Do our bodies contain far more bacteria than human cells? Researchers have found that this is not the case. The ratio is approximately equal ...

Some Like It Toxic

Certain plants are capable of extracting heavy metals from contaminated soil while at the same time supplying important raw materials. This ...

Giants with Explosive Powers

Volcanoes exist all over the world, and since even inactive volcanoes may once again choose to breathe fire, their continued scientific stud ...

Lost Excellence?

Women continue to be in the minority when it comes to senior positions in science and research. Why is this? An attempt at finding explanati ...

Space Girls

Claudia Kessler, a German aerospace engineer, was denied the dream of flying to the moon. Today, the 56-year-old heads the private foundati ...

A Broader Scope

They are the ones who make science accessible – researchers who blog and who are active on social networks are becoming the digital voices o ...

Things We Cannot Manage Alone

Community cohesion is considered to be the “glue” of our society. In times of crisis, it ensures that people will collaborate, close ranks – ...

From Patterns and Models

Our daily lives are steeped in mathematics. According to Gerta Köster, professor at the University of Munich, there is hardly an area that ...

Good for the Brain

Shane O’Mara studies how leisurely walks affect our muscles, our immune systems and our brains. Read here how 5,000 steps a day can make a d ...

In Harmony with Nature

New building materials may open up a future in which buildings and their environments can interact with one another. Whether organic or inor ...

Understanding Our Cosmos

Curiosity about our universe is as boundless as the universe itself. Space explorers study it with probes, satellites and telescopes – conti ...

The Emergence of a Sense of Us

A good community is not created from nothing. Small groups, more togetherness instead of solitary struggle, and a sense of humor foster a st ...

And Then There Were Fewer …

A well-known fact: insects play a critical role in food networks and ecosystems. Another known fact: it is mainly terrestrial insects which ...