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How Do You Make Online Maps More Social, Ms Leal-Taixé?
In her “Social Maps” project the computer scientist Laura Leal-Taixé wants to integrate social information into digital maps.
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How Does Mathematics Help Fishermen, Mr Fall?
Mouhamed Moustapha Fall wants to develop a mathematically precise model based on the data relating to the catch and the fish stocks.
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How Germany can become competitive in the international AI arena
Humboldt Professors for AI make recommendations to German government.
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How are you improving genetic scissors, Ms Madariaga Marcos?
You’re banned! With the help of CRISPR/Cas systems, bacteria protect their genome from mutations or destruction caused by pathogens. Biotechnology has adopted the mechanism of the bacterial defence system – also known as genetic scissors – using it to specifically modify the genome by deleting or inserting certain DNA sequences.
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How can artificial intelligence help to combat viruses, Mr Jin?
Being faster and more reliable than humans, artificial intelligence is usually used to evaluate huge volumes of data and identify patterns in them. But what happens when there isn’t enough data, and you have to work with uncertainties? In this case, thanks to millions of years of evolution, nature easily has the upper hand.
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How can music save the climate, Mr Titus?
What links music with plastic waste, emissions or oil leakages? The Nigerian Olusegun Stephen Titus explores just how protest songs can trigger re-thinking and help to achieve ecological sustainability.
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Flood defense with oysters – a real option?
The environmental engineer is testing oyster reefs to counteract storm surges and erosion.
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How can you treat dangerous co-infections, Mr Elmowafy?
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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How did you become Ethiopia’s first female Professor, Ms Mekonnen?
When I went to Germany in 1988 to do my dissertation, that was totally unusual for a woman from Ethiopia.
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How do planets come from dust, Ms Pinilla?
Stars, dust and baby planets are the orbit of astrophysicist Paola Pinilla’s research. With the help of high-performance telescopes on Earth, she regularly visits delivery rooms in the cosmos, observing protoplanetary discs of gas and dust that rotate around young stars.
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