Modeling COVID-19 Data Must Be Done With Extreme Care
As the virus causing COVID-19 began its devastating spread, an international team of scientists was alarmed by the lack of uniform approaches by various countries' epidemiologists. Data modeling to...
View ArticleGermans want open communication of uncertainty in the coronavirus pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has once again highlighted the uncertainty inherent in science.
View ArticleHistorian offers first deep dive into secret German-Soviet alliance that laid...
In new research, Ian Johnson, the P. J. Moran Family Assistant Professor of Military History at the University of Notre Dame, details the inner workings of the German-Soviet alliance that laid the...
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After the flood disaster in western Germany: what science must find answers to
On 14 July 2021, between 60 and 180 mm of rain fell in the Eifel region in just 22 hours - an amount that would otherwise have fallen in several months and which led to catastrophic flooding.
View ArticleSocial distancing measures in the spring of 2020 effectively curbed the...
The measures adopted in mid-March 2020 to contain the COVID-19 pandemic both greatly reduced people's mobility and effectively prevented the spread of COVID-19 in the following three weeks.
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Germany-Wide Pilot Project for Coronavirus Detection in Wastewater
Coronaviruses can be detected in wastewater some days before first disease symptoms develop. On this basis, it is possible to determine the number of infections more quickly, analyze the infection...
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Press release by the Association for Vertical Farming, Munich Germany April...
The Association for Vertical Farming (AVF) is pleased to announce our partnership with our new advisory board member, Stephen Ritz, and his non-profit, Green Bronx Machine.
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Rewriting the History of the Autobiographical Graphic Novel
"I donated the comics to the University of Adelaide to ensure that the history of the camps, and the experiences of the prisoners, are remembered. It is appropriate that the comics be kept in the...
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Climate change in the forests of northern Germany
More and more trees are suffering the consequences of decades of man-made climate change.
View ArticleHow the Nazi years influenced the Nobel Prize in Literature
Paulus Tiozzo studied the Nobel Prize and German literature for his thesis. Previously inaccessible archival material shows how members of the Swedish Academy viewed German literature during the two...
View ArticleEast and West Germans show preference for different government systems 30...
Even after 27 years of reunification, East Germans are still more likely to be pro-state support than their Western counterparts, a new study published in the De Gruyter journal German Economic Review...
View ArticleInsect decline also occurs in forests
The number of insects has been declining for years. This has already been well documented for agricultural areas. In forests, however, temporal trends are mostly studied for insect species that are...
View ArticlePain out of control
A study conducted by the team at the Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, provides evidence that certain brain areas involved in processing pain don't...
View Article"Golden" fossils reveal origins of exceptional preservation
A recent study by scientists at The University of Texas at Austin and collaborators found that many of the fossils from Germany's Posidonia shale do not get their gleam from pyrite, commonly known as...
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