Research magazine: All issues
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Heat – 01/2025
The city as a hothouse, overheated societies, cosmic forges of planets, and geothermal energy from magma chambers: this issue of the magazine is all about – heat. We explore its various aspects and show how to keep a cool head.
What we inherit – 02/2024
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Heritage - a term with many facets: The unequal distribution of wealth, traces of evolution in our genes, the risk of hereditary diseases, Shakespeare's legacy and how we prepare children for the world. This and much more in this issue!
Highlights:
- Wealth: not a level playing field
- Human heritage: How we became who we are
- Shakespeare's works: Beguiling, unsettling
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Lights on – 01/2024
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Producing hydrogen with the energy of the sun, searching for life in the light signatures of foreign planets and how light influences our sleep. An edition about the magic and power of light!
Highlights:
- Extraterrestrial life: The light from distant worlds
- Antarctica: Warming in the cooler
- Crystals as superlenses: The catcher of light
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Really? – 02/2023
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Natural, artificial: the boundaries are blurring. In this issue, we look at machines that learn rare languages, genetically adapted crops and the triumph of automated stock market trading.
Highlights:
- Mongolia: From the steppe to the city
- Agriculture: Crops in planetary stress test
- Cultural Heritage: „We’re making time visible“
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Sticking together – 01/2023
In this edition, we ask what drives people apart, what welds societies together – but also how each particle in a quantum system influences the whole collective. That and much more in this issue!
Highlights:
- Society: Cohesion or division
- Nano-transport: A matter of perseverance
- Mathematical Physics: The particles and the whole
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Call of the wild – 02/2022
What is wilderness? A refuge for nature worth preserving? A valuable resource for climate protection? The last remnant of the untamable? Join us on an expedition in this issue!
Highlights:
- Anthropology: Childhood in the jungle
- On the fundamental rights of foxes
- The strange world of the ocean deep