Magazine Humboldt Kosmos
The High-Flyer
The biologist, Martin Wikelski, studies animal migration – from space. In his project ICARUS, he collects the data from animals fitted with GPS transmitters.
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Magazine Humboldt Kosmos
The Lure of Germany
For years he had to justify why he was such a good friend to Germany. Today, Myles W. Jackson has to explain why he doesn’t want to work in Germany permanently despite having been offered a prestigious Humboldt Professorship.
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Bridging the Gap
In the picture you can see me at Tempelhof Field in Berlin preparing for a Soapbox Science event I was helping to organise. Soapbox Science takes science to a broader public and makes female scientists more visible.
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Who Tells the Swarm Where To Go, Mr Jolles?
Animal swarms have fascinated us for a long time. How do they coordinate their behaviour, who leads, who follows? This is one of Jolle Jolles’ research fields: he focuses on sticklebacks.
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What Is the Key to Developing a Malaria Vaccine, Ms Osier?
Very early on, the Kenyan Faith Osier dreamt of developing a vaccine to combat malaria. Every year in Africa, more than 400,000 people die of the infectious disease, which is caused by single-cell parasites and transmitted by mosquitos.
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What Does a Cave Bear’s Jawbone Tell Us, Ms Van Heteren?
Anneke van Heteren has a penchant for skeletons. She studies bones to investigate the lifestyle of extinct mammals. Cave bears, which lived more than 25,000 years ago, are the palaeontologist’s special field. She thinks the bears were herbivorous.
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How Are You Taking Green Energy to Uzbekistan, Mr Hojamberdiev?
Uzbekistan wants to establish renewable energies. But the country is short on expertise. Materials researcher Mirabbos Hojamberdiev has the knowledge required: he develops promising solar technologies which could become a model for other places, too.
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Which Tree Has the Greatest Cooling Effect in Summer, Mr Rahman?
When it gets too hot in street canyons in summer, many city dwellers head for the parks. No wonder: it can be up to five degrees cooler there than in the concrete jungle. The greenery works like air conditioning. But which trees have the greatest cooling effect? Plant ecologist Mohammad Rahman is in Munich trying to find out.
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Above It All
That’s me on the climbing wall at the 2018 Paraclimbing World Championships in Innsbruck. For the second time in succession, I took the world title in the AL-2 category. This stands for “athletes with an amputated leg or leg deficiency”.
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Winners of the third ComLab announced
The best four works of journalism from the third Communication Lab for Exchange between Research and Media have been awarded €500 each by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the International Journalists’ Programmes.
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