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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.

Last change: 21/09/2021

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”.

Last change: 21/09/2021

Alexander von Humboldt Professorship 2015 Sharon Jeanette Macdonald Under Sharon Macdonald’s leadership, Humboldt-Universität, the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundat

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Alexander von Humboldt Professorship 2015 Harald Andrés Helfgott As an Alexander von Humboldt Professor at the University of Göttingen, Harald Helfgott will reinforce the research focus on algebraic g

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Alexander von Humboldt Professorship 2016 Wolfgang Wernsdorfer Wolfgang Wernsdorfer’s specialism is experimental solid state physics at the interface with chemistry and material science. Nominating Un

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Alexander von Humboldt Professorship 2016 Judith Pfeiffer By gaining an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship for Judith Pfeiffer the University of Bonn would like to continue strengthening its researc

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