LMU Research and Innovation Research Magazine 01/2025 - Rethink

The world is changing—major disruptions are looming, and new ideas are needed. This issue of the magazine is about rethinking: How is AI changing literature? Which new realities do we face as the climate tips? And could the universe itself be working quite differently than we thought?

Prose ex machina

Julian Schröter discusses the rapid progress in automated text production, the future of authorship – and the possibility of a niche market for AI-free works.

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Vikings: In the fog of history

How clichés about Vikings came about and why they still have an impact today. Old Norse scholar Verena Höfig explores the truth behind the myth.

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Cancer therapy made to measure

Marion Subklewe and Sebastian Kobold are getting the immune system to target tumors and opening up new perspectives for patient-specific treatments.

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From lecture hall… to the rice paddy

Field research in Thailand: Judith Bopp investigates how organic farming can make smallholders more resilient.

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Cracks in the foundations of cosmology

The measurements no longer fit the theory: Can these discrepancies be resolved, or are they rooted in more fundamental problems?

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Workmate AI

LMU economist Anne-Sophie Mayer explains how artificial intelligence is changing career entry and what challenges and opportunities this presents.

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5 critical climate tipping points

Climate change is transforming our planet – irreversibly in some cases. How much time do we have left to act before the climate tips? And what new realities will we have to confront?

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Real utopias: wishes that can come true

Rethinking how we live: Lena Radau is researching alternative housing communities – and wants to build a bridge between utopia and reality.

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RNA – so much more

It was long thought that RNA merely mediates protein synthesis. But by now it is abundantly clear: these molecules perform many more tasks in the body.

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