Geoscientist Oliver Korup Explores Natural Hazards
If earthquakes, landslides, floods and debris avalanches cannot be prevented, then people in the affected regions want to know at least how often such …
LifE-Longitudinal Study Records Living Conditions across Generational Borders
There is something fascinating about chronicles: Like in fast motion, you can relate to events, how conditions and relationships have changed and the …
Professor Christian Stegmann Uses Gamma-Ray Telescopes to Look for Cosmic Accelerators
There is one appointment after the other. Christian Stegmann hurries down the corridor, a hard hat under his arm. There is a lot of construction work …
They decide where to build new bike paths and how many places to create in day-care centers for children. They also decide about the opening hours of …
The role of finger counting and the significance of embodied cognition
Is our brain a computer? A calculating machine? A processor of information with memory capacity problems? For a long time neuroscientists thought so. …
Psycholinguists from Potsdam examine how the human brain processes language
We can understand what we read and hear without any difficulty. We do this without ever really thinking about the high performance of our brain. It is …
