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How colonialism is still affecting science – and where supposedly self-evident facts fall apart

Last change: 25/09/2024

Intervention research investigates strategies to help counter climate change and infectious diseases.

Last change: 24/05/2023

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.

Last change: 21/09/2021

In his book “Die verborgene Natur der Liebe” (The Hidden Nature of Love), the historian of biology Thomas Junker reveals that we are still creatures of nature.

Last change: 24/09/2021

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.

Last change: 21/09/2021

Research, teaching, having a baby at home: "I actually wanted to take a few months maternity leave. Ten days after giving birth, I was back at my computer.

Last change: 08/08/2022

Recently, it was the 30th anniversary of my accident. I have now been in a wheelchair for almost twice as long as I was able to walk.

Last change: 17/11/2023

Academic freedom must be protected! Robert Quinn, Executive Director of the Scholars at Risk Network, has written an essay on the importance of academic freedom to mark the fifth anniversary of the Philipp Schwartz Initiative in 2021.

Last change: 11/12/2025

The researcher investigates which foreign countries influence the media.

Last change: 11/12/2025