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The Humboldt Academia in Society Summit seeks to generate new ideas on current topics and challenges in civil society from within science.

Last change: 17/11/2023

Where we lived was completely cut off from the outside world. There was no electricity and no transport connections.

Last change: 17/11/2023

To discover what holds the world together in its innermost core – philosophy seeks to find timeless truths that apply to all people. Today, however, the canon is largely dominated by the thoughts of a few European philosophers. Just how much racism informs their thinking is the issue being explored by Marina Martinez Mateo.

Last change: 24/09/2024

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.

Last change: 17/05/2023

In the digital world, artificial intelligence often has the effect of reinforcing opinions. It creates filter bubbles, promotes radical tendencies and influences elections. Jose Renato Laranjeira de Pereira investigates these dark sides of AI.

Last change: 08/08/2022

According to the UN, the practice affects more than 200 million women worldwide: young girls are subject to genital mutilation at the hands of their parents or relatives – a violent ritual.

Last change: 08/08/2022

Suddenly, your fingers start to cramp up while playing or your facial muscles stop doing the things they have done thousands of times before. Dystonia is a neurological disorder which usually expresses itself in muscle cramps and uncontrollable movements.

Last change: 12/10/2021