Sticking together

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!

Portrait of Prof. Dr. Mario Gollwitzer

Cohesion or division

LMU social psychologist Mario Gollwitzer looks at what pushes people apart and what binds societies together.

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Portrait of Prof. Dr. Olivia Merkel

A matter of perseverance

Since the start of her career, Olivia Merkel has been researching methods for transporting therapeutic RNA segments precisely to their target location in the lungs.

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The particles and the whole

Scientists have been able to describe quantum mechanical systems with mathematical precision in the microscopic realm, but not in the macroscopic realm. Christian Hainzl explains how he is learning to understand the baffling properties of particle collectives.

The particles and the whole
Portrait of Dr. Margit Dirscherl

"Like a stage, platform by platform”

Railway stations symbolize the onset of modernity. They stand for connections and encounters. We join Margit Dirscherl, a Germanist who studies the fascination that railway stations have held for writers, on a whistle-stop tour through literary history.

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THE INTERPRETER

Some scientific terms manage to make their way into everyday speech. Here, we ask LMU researchers to tell us what they mean – to define them, and to outline how they became popular.

The interpreter: Felix Havermann explains CDR
The interpreter: Oliver Jahraus on kafkaesque
The interpreter: Olivia Merkel on “nanocarriers”

Structures in the fog

AI tools such as the Stable Diffusion model developed by Björn Ommer are teaching computers how to see and paint.

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“There is no 100% protection”

LMU computer scientist Dieter Kranzlmüller, Managing Director of the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, about cybersecurity in the era of the first quantum computers

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Hearts and minds

Pigs are used as model organisms for studying diseases, and they could also become organ donors for humans. We visit LMU’s Center for Innovative Medical Models (CiMM) to find out more.

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