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ON THE FREEZING-COLD FAST-LANE OF THE ELECTRICITY HIGHWAY

Energy reaching its destination within seconds – across continents and with no power loss in transmission lines along the way. In the future, superconductors might well be able to make this...

Music of the Future – How artificial intelligence and creativity go together

Artifical Intelligence refers to the ability of a computer to solve tasks that require human intelligence. Where an algorithm can only follow fixed patterns, AI creates new connections all on its...

Bio-inspired Design

From Pine Cone to Building Facade

A model displayed at Futurium shows the principle behind the way some plants distribute their seeds: Dr Michaela Eder from the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (MPIKG) explains what...

Bioeconomy and Futurium

Speech at the launch event for the Year of Science

By Stefan Brandt – Almost 50 years have now passed since the Club of Rome pointed out “the limits to growth”. Since 1972 at the very latest, it’s been known that we cannot continue our...

HOW RESEARCHERS WANT TO GET NUCLEAR FUSION ENERGY INTO SHAPE FOR THE ENERGY MARKET

ON THE WAY TO FUSION

The stars up above draw their energy from nuclear fusion. And here down below, researchers have been working for the last six decades on ways to harness this tremendous power for use on earth....

How Neurourbanism Aims to Counteract Mental Illness

How much city makes us sick?

Whoever spends a long time living in a city containing more than a million people has a higher risk of developing schizophrenia than those living in the countryside. In an interview conducted by...