Magazine Humboldt Kosmos
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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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.
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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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Intervention research investigates strategies to help counter climate change and infectious diseases.
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How colonialism is still affecting science – and where supposedly self-evident facts fall apart
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Alumni of the Communication Lab and experts from academia, the media and politics met in Berlin on 8 September to share ideas on the communication challenges facing AI, climate innovations and biotechnology.
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Under the banner “Mobilizing diverse minds across the globe”, the Foundation recently conducted the first Humboldt Hackathon where individuals sponsored by the Foundation discussed new ways to make full use of the potential offered by the Humboldt Network.
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Jeff Wilkesmann had to leave his home country Venezuela in 2017. His university was closed after a military intervention. Time and again, professors in the country disappeared. Thanks to a fellowship of the Philipp Schwartz Initiative, he was able to continue his work at the Mannheim University of Applied Sciences.
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Jeff Wilkesmann had to leave his home country Venezuela in 2017. His university was closed after a military intervention. Time and again, professors in the country disappeared. Thanks to a fellowship of the Philipp Schwartz Initiative, he was able to continue his work at the Mannheim University of Applied Sciences.
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A conversation with Enno Aufderheide, Secretary General of the Humboldt Foundation, on recruiting research luminaries and the benefits they bring German universities.
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