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Women Earn with Beauty, Men with Strength – Prof. Marco Caliendo has researched the relationship between career and bodyweight

With a wasp waist like Heidi Klum’s you can boast in the office – and also earn more. Women with supermodel measurements have higher incomes than …
Picture: Arne Peters

Vanderbijlpark, 26/4/2015, day 2

Since today is Sunday and we cannot do a lot, we take the opportunity to walk to a small supermarket very close by. We get many new impressions of the …
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Vanderbijlpark, 25/4/2015, day 1

Our journey starts with a flight from Berlin to Frankfurt. There we take an Airbus 380 and fly to Johannesburg, Oliver Tamboo airport. After a …
Björn Huwe and Annelie Fiedler made the moss fit for space. Foto: Annelie Fiedler

Surviving in Space – Why There’s Moss on the ISS

All the lights on campus are off. Only in Björn Huwe’s office a screen is flickering. The biologist is sitting at his desk in the institute building …
Equipment for EEG experiment. Picture: Thomas Roese

A Window to the Brain – Potsdam Psycholinguists Research Multilingualism

It began with the 1961 German-Turkish recruitment agreement. Many young Turks, who had initially come to Germany as temporary guest workers, ended up …
Cultures are exposed to light of different colors in this incubator. Picture: Andreas Klaer

Factories of the Future – How cells become producers of medicine and biofuels

The term is an oxymoron: synthetic biology. This field of research has been developing very rapidly for some years now, in which biologists, chemists, …
Smog over Hong Kong. Picture: Fotolia.com/Stripped Pixel

Post-carbon futures – Making the City of Tomorrow

About two thirds of all Europeans and over three quarters of Germans now live in cities…and their number is continuously increasing. Urbanization is a …
A highlight for geoscientists. The Andes have everything that’s interesting in geology. Photo: Andreas Bergner

Solid Relationships – Research cooperation between Potsdam and Argentina expanding

The Andes are an Eldorado for geoscientists: The South American mountain range is one of the earth’s youngest and most active ranges, making it one of …
Two levels of fluvial terraces overgrown with vegetation. Today’s riverbed lies a few meters lower than during the time the fluvial terraces were formed. Picture: Taylor Schildgen

On Precipices – Landscape Response to Climate Change

Landscapes change over hundreds of thousands, even millions of years. Tectonic events and erosion create mountain ranges and remove them again. The …
“In the past the only possibility to interfere into local politics was to go the polls,” Franzke says. Voter turnout, however, has been continuously decreasing for years now, the researcher point. Picture: Christian Schwier/Fotolia

“Not Without Us!” – New forms of participatory democracy enrich local policy

Water cannons roll, batons are swung, tear gas is in the air. The Stuttgart Palace Gardens have changed into a place of violence, chaos, rage and …