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Rather stock market than housing market. Photo: AdobeStock/peterschreiber.media

Are Cities the New Stock Markets? – Gentrification between Upgrading and Financialization

A few short years ago, everything seemed to be fine in the urban world. Apartments served their purpose as homes at prices more or less matched to …
Vision of the MetaZIKs OptiZeD for the development of an integral multiparameter biosensor system (MBS). Photo: © Yixin Zhang

Three million euro for new methodology in personalised medicine

The Center for Molecular Bioengineering (B CUBE) of TU Dresden and the Center for innovative fiber optic spectroscopy and sensors (innoFSPEC) of the …
Prof. Dr. Christoph Lippert. Foto: HPI/Kay Herschelmann

And all for One - Christoph Lippert explains how data from millions of people can help the individual patient

The assistant is looking apprehensively into the diary. “The meeting is delayed,” she says. “And the next appointment begins in an hour.” In between, …
apl. Prof. Dr. Dietmar Sturzbecher. Foto: Dirk Vegelahn

Coming of Age – Growing Up at the Focus of Research

Childhood and youth are times of great changes and searching, phases full of tensions, risks, and opportunities. At the Institute for Applied …
Restless Legs Syndrom is barely explored in children. Photo: AdobeStock/MohdHafiez

When Night Turns to Day - Interdisciplinary Cooperation Project Researches Restless Legs Syndrome in Children and Youth

Adults have it, and children, too. But how common restless legs syndrome (RLS) actually is in minors has hardly been researched. A study carried out …
Printed batteries of different shapes and structures. Photo: Dr. Kerstin Zehbe.

Batteries from the Printer – Chemists from Potsdam and Karlsruhe Are Developing Novel Electrochemical Storage Systems

Powerful batteries are in demand as never before. They are not only the key to electromobility and energy supply for our everyday electronic …
Prof. Dr. Norbert Gronau. Photo: Ernst Kaczynski.

“Not Everything Needs to Be 100 Percent Autonomous”

Business Informatics Specialist Norbert Gronau Says: What Matters Is How Humans and Machines Interact

Driverless cars, fully-automated factories, self-learning computer programs: Is technical innovation making humans redundant? Are these developments …
Dr. Hannes Vasyura-Bathke. Photo: Tobias Hopfgarten.

Exemplary – How Artificial Neural Networks Can Revolutionize Georeseach

Geoscientists have a problem: The phenomena they research are so complex that it is difficult to track them down. New sensor technology, satellite …
Prof. Dr. Ottmar Ette (links) und Dr. Tobias Kraft. Photo: Karla Fritze.

Humboldt’s Journey into the Digital World – From a Hand-Written Diary to a Digital Edition and Back to Printed Paper

2019 marks Alexander von Humboldt's 250th birthday – a good reason to look at the comprehensive academy project of editing his travel diaries. Romance …
Prof. Dr. Johann Ev. Hafner. Photo: Karla Fritze.

In Search of Islam – Where do Muslims Live in Brandenburg?

Thousands of migrants and refugees come to Germany every year. As a result, the diversity of faith in Germany is greater than ever before. Despite …