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A path of devastation along the Teesta River. The flood undercut the slopes in many places, triggering landslides.

Glacial Lakes and Climate Change – Lessons Learned from the Catastrophic Sikkim Flood in India in October 2023

Media Information 31-01-2025 / Nr. 011

During the night of October 3 to 4, 2023, thousands of people along the Teesta River were forced to leave their homes. The river, which flows through …
Maja Linke in her office.

33 Questions to Maja Linke, Professor of Artistic Practice Specialising in Painting/Graphics

In what way is asking a question an emancipatory act? And what does responding have to do with responsibility? Is it possible to conduct artistic …
Robot Nao in the office together with Katharina Kühne

Did You Know … That Potsdam Robots Speak Berlin Dialect? – Katharina Kühne researches our relationship to artificial agents

“Well done, enough work for today,” says Katharina Kühne. Then she presses a button on Nao’s chest; the robot sits down, and the blue light in its …
Bust of David admiring himself in a mirror on a pink background. Symbolic representation of narcissism.

“Narcissism Has Many Faces” – Dr. Ramzi Fatfouta on the unknown aspects of a personality trait

We all want to feel valuable and important. However, some people swing very strongly between grandiose fantasies and extreme sensitivity to criticism …
Aileen Oeberst in her office

Misjudgments and False Memories – The newly appointed professor Aileen Oeberst knows the pitfalls of human information processing

To err is human – this is a commonplace truth. Fortunately, when we make mistakes, the impacts are usually less serious than we fear. But there are …
Kirsten Sachse im Labor

My Workday – Between Shaking Flasks and Petri Dishes

“I love my amebae because they are more like us than you might think,” says Kirsten Sachse. Amebae are social unicellular organisms with a diameter of …
Martin Fischer in seinem Büro.

If I Could, I Would … Suspend the Laws of Nature! – with cognitive scientist Prof. Martin Fischer, Ph.D.

At least in the lab. My topic is “Embodied Cognition”. To understand it better, one of the things I would like to do is defy gravity. In the past, the …
A resilient democracy needs a committed and active civil society.

Democracy in a Downward Spiral – How Behavioral Science Can Strengthen Our Political Resilience

Media information 06-01-2025 / No. 001

Democracies all over the world are under pressure with a very real danger of them becoming increasingly autocratic. But time and again, democratic …
The US-American researcher Sudha Arunachalam

The Subtle Differences – Visiting researcher Sudha Arunachalam about linguistic research on infants

Linguist Sudha Arunachalam has received the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for her findings on …
A sediment-covered glacier in the northwest Himalayas in a region where a lot of sediment is produced and transported away in the rivers.

Swelling Streams – Climate Change Causes More Sediment in High-Mountain Rivers

Media Information 03-12-2024 / Nr. 114

Many high-mountain rivers in Asia transport more sediment downstream compared to a few years ago. Changes in sediment levels have a particularly …