Magazine Humboldt Kosmos
How can Africa feed its growing population when climate change and environmental degradation are making agriculture ever more difficult? African researchers are working on solutions.
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Magazine Humboldt Kosmos
Seventy years – between tradition and innovation. Or why the Humboldt Foundation is like Coca-Cola.
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News
The year 2023 − the centenary of the founding of the Turkish Republic – has been dominated by the country’s presidential and parliamentary elections. We’ve asked two researchers from Turkey about these elections’ long-term meaning for Turkish society.
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Magazine Humboldt Kosmos
Margaret E. Roberts’ research field could not be more pertinent. With the help of artificial intelligence and machine learning, the political scientist and data researcher investigates the Internet censorship practices of authoritarian states. Furnished with a Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award, she is now examining the role of social media platforms.
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Press Release
“Generous research funding is a German trademark. We cannot let up in our efforts to invest in science and scholarship”, Robert Schlögl, President of the Humboldt Foundation, said at the award ceremony for the Alexander von Humboldt Professorships in Berlin.
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Magazine Humboldt Kosmos
The study, “Germany from the outside”, reveals how visiting researchers from abroad rate working and living here.
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Magazine Humboldt Kosmos
Who actually does what at Humboldt headquarters? Who are the people behind the scenes making sure that everything runs smoothly? This page is devoted to the colleagues at the Humboldt Foundation, their lives at work and beyond. TODAY: DANIELA NIES.
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Magazine Humboldt Kosmos
Up to now, most of the films made on the continent of Africa have been low-budget filmed entertainment. But now, investors and streaming services are opening up the market in African films to an international audience. The Nigerian film scholar Ezinne Ezepue sees this as a great opportunity. Through her research, she wants to help develop high-quality African stories and more differentiated images of Africa.
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It is one of the complications of operations like organ or stem cell transplantations that everyone dreads: a simultaneous infection by various pathogens, such as bacteria, viruses and fungi, known as a “co-infection”. A patient’s weakened immune system is often unable to fight back.
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Magazine Humboldt Kosmos
Using computer simulations, researchers can both predict the climate in the coming decades as well as produce short-term weather forecasts for specific regions. But so far, they are not as precise as they might be. In order to calculate the complex processes in the atmosphere and identify local extreme weather events such as heavy rain at an early stage, enormous computing capacity is required. New supercomputers could provide it. The atmospheric physicist Bjorn Stevens is working on it.
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