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Intellect and Scholarship

Innovations, non-university research - by Max Planck, Fraunhofer, Leibniz and Humboldt: current information and background reports from the spirit and research

Der Dom zu Aachen: Grabstätte Karls des Großen
Experience history virtually
Visiting historic places can give you an intensive experience of history. These sites are worth a visit, even a virtual one.
Zu Besuch im Wikingermuseum Haithabu
Time travel under the open sky
Open-air museums in Germany: discovering history here is a special experience – and sometimes deeply shocking.
Menschheitsgeschichte als Familienbild im Neanderthal-Museum.
From Neanderthals to emigrants
Museums in Germany: a prehistoric site, a battlefield and a port – here you can visit three extraordinary places.
Randall bewarb sich bereits 2008 als Astronautin bei der ESA.
Equality in space
Eleven German men have already travelled in space. The Female Astronaut initiative aims to send the first German woman into space – in 2021.
Die EOSC erleichtert Forschern den Umgang mit großen Datenmengen.
A cloud for science
In the European Open Science Cloud, researchers can store their data securely and exchange them across borders. We explain how it works.
Ärzte begutachten die Daten von Covid-19-Patienten
“Difficult, tragic decisions”
What do doctors base their decisions on when equipment and staff become scarce? Medical ethics specialist Kathrin Knochel helped formulate recommendations.
Forscher der NASA arbeiten in der fliegenden Sternwarte „SOFIA“.
Tomatoes in space
Vegetable cultivation for the journey to Mars and an infrared telescope in an aircraft: A look at the most exciting German aerospace projects
Seit 2015 ist Jan Wörner Generaldirektor der ESA.
Overcoming terrestrial problems in outer space
Europe’s role in outer space: ESA Director General Jan Wörner talks about dangerous solar storms and how our everyday life depends on aerospace.
Laura Winterling studierte Physik, bevor sie zur ESA ging.
All-rounders for outer space
How are astronauts trained for space travel? Former ESA instructor Laura Winterling talks about it.
Susan Neiman: „Berlin ist viel internationaler geworden“
International impulses in Berlin
The American philosopher Susan Neiman talks about Berlin before and after the fall of the Wall, and about the Einstein Forum she runs in Potsdam.
Vielfalt bereichert, auch die Sprache
Gender: how fair is the German language?
How can the German language be made fairer – and is this necessary at all?
Studierende beantworten, was sie mit Humboldt verbinden.
"For me, Alexander von Humboldt is ..."
He's probably one of the best-known of all Germans: Alexander von Humboldt. We asked students at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU Berlin) what the natural scientist means to them.

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