Captain AI
The roads are full, the rails even more so – that makes transport by water attractive. If it weren’t...
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Kapitän KI
Die Straßen sind voll, die Schienen erst recht – das macht den Transport auf dem Wasserweg attraktiv. Doch hier...
Why I Do Research
Four scientists explain what drives them on. »Collaborating as a team to make exciting, new discoveries at the frontier...
Knowledge Between Covers 2023
A small selection of new publications. CURING AN AILING Are we trapped in a schizophrenic time loop? AI is...
In the Kingdom of Algae
Island, 1974:Michael Melkonian fishes a sample of the genus Glenodiniopsis out of a small pond, thus marking the beginning...
A Virus Against Cancer
What if a patient’s own immune system could fight a primary tumour and metastasis – both at once –...
Making Baschar, Nele, and Darja Strong
Income poverty, low educational qualifications, poor German language skills, and experiences of migration and displacement – these are challenges faced...
Raw Material for Research
Fewer data silos, more exchange – computer science research is striving for a new data culture. The necessary infrastructure...
Up not Down
Materials scientists at the UDE want to build new houses from old. Help is coming from an unexpected source...
Got it?
Communicating with AI Systems. By Katrin Koster Homework assistance, health app, or daily planner – with Alexa, Siri, and...
Literature Enlivens Predictions
New Perspectives on Climate Change. By Katrin Koster Our future – doomsday scenario or heroic story? When literary texts,...
In brief
A summary of key news. GIANT BOLTS AND ARENA ROOFS Cable cars, offshore platforms, wind turbines, the Schalke arena...
Knocking on Doors for Science
How do Germans with a family history of immigration vote? Little is known about this, but a team led...
At the Heart of High-Frequency Technology
They can be used to detect skin cancer, determine the water content of a plant, measure material thickness, or...
Finally Everything is Coming Together
It takes four and a half minutes to go between Harry Hoster’s two offices on foot. Those four and...
The Pulse of Research
A miniscule bacterium can influence whether we are diseased or healthy, a virus or a cell can make the...
Every Head is Different
Throbbing, wrenching, stabbing: headaches can differ a lot – and almost everyone has them. The West German Headache Center...
A Home for Microbes to Share
What lives inside and on our body is the subject of emerging microbiome research. Jan Kehrmann’s team has discovered...
One Health
What happens deep down in Earth’s subsurface? That’s the focus of Alexander Probst’s research. He also studies how microorganisms...
Please Treat Unequally
Height: just under 1.80 meters; weight: approximately 85 kilograms. One X and one Y chromosome. This has been more...
Good Killer Cells
Chemotherapy, radiotherapy or surgery – these are the three common forms of cancer therapy. The lymphoma specialists at University...
In it for the Long Haul
The internationally recognised Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study has been investigating cardiovascular diseases for more than 23 years. There’s no...
Great Expectations
Optimistically we swallow the tablet, because it helped last time. Or we take one for the first time and...
Knowledge Between Covers 2022
A small selection of new publications. ‘Sounds utopian – and that’s what it’s meant to be’ Everyone should be allowed...
Tetris for Industry
It stands like a stacking game in the labs of the NanoEnergieTechnikZentrum (NETZ) – a modular roll-to-roll coater whose...
AI on Prescription
It takes over such tasks that bore or overwhelm humans: artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to become the metronome...
Duisburg: A Hydrogen Hotspot
Germany has ambitions to become a hydrogen republic. The hydrogen and fuel cell center ZBT GmbH will play a...
Pushing Boundaries
She actually wanted to be a pianist. Now Ute Klammer is setting standards as a scientist. Portrait of a tireless...
Unique
With ACTIVE SITES, the UDE is getting a new research building where big things will happen. It is a...
Close to Light Speed
Taking concrete into space sounds strange enough, but how about mixing it on the International Space Station (ISS) in...
Evolution or Revolution?
At present, 5G is still the be-all and end-all in mobile communications and the changeover is in full swing. At the...
In brief
A summary of key news Security for the Computers of the Future Good news for our paluno research group...
More Time for People
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the hospital still feels futuristic to many people. Yet it is now an important issue...
Under One Roof
Water research at the UDE is getting its own building, the FutureWaterCampus. It will offer a home for all...
Blue-green instead of Brown
A climate-resilient city needs intact green spaces. The Smart Green City pilot project uses intelligent sensors to ensure that these areas...
The Environmental Specimen Bank
Travelling back in time to biological diversity: The German Environmental Specimen Bank stores more than 500,000 snapshots from various...
Studying the Future
The water industry needs experts worldwide. Our university trains them. An example. By Katrin Koster Water is a fascinating...
The River Doctor
Only aquatic isopods and chironomid larvae in the stream instead of exuberant biodiversity? In that case, it is in...
Future Water
Energy source, pollutant collector, elixir of life, cause of conflicts – water is so diverse. All these facets come together...
Precious Elixir of Life
It has to be safe and clean and supply billions of people: water. Use of the resource is ever...
Most Expensive River In The World
The Emscher was once dead, but now it has undergone a miraculous transformation. In high-profile projects UDE’s researchers are...
Wissen zwischen Buchdeckeln 2022
Wer forscht, publiziert. Wir stellen eine kleine Auswahl an neuen Fachbüchern vor. Klingt utopisch, ist auch so gemeint Alle Menschen sollen...
Tetris für die Industrie
In den Laboren des NanoEnergieTechnikZentrums (NETZ) steht er wie ein Stapel-Spiel – ein modularer Roll-to-Roll-Coater, dessen einzelne Quader sich je...
Start-up: KI auf Rezept
Was Menschen langweilt oder überfordert, übernimmt sie: Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) kann zum Metronom des Mittelstands werden, wenn es nach dem...
Wasserstoff-Hotspot Duisburg
Deutschland soll Wasserstoffrepublik werden, und das Zentrum für BrennstoffzellenTechnik ist hierbei ein Dreh- und Angelpunkt. Nicht nur die Wirtschaft an Rhein...
Wände versetzen
Eigentlich wollte sie Pianistin werden. Jetzt setzt Ute Klammer als Wissenschaftlerin Maßstäbe. Porträt einer unermüdlichen Frau. Von Katrin Koster Wenn...
Einzigartig
Die UDE bekommt mit ACTIVE SITES ein neues Forschungsgebäude, in dem Großes passieren wird: Kleinste molekulare Prozesse aktiver Zentren werden...
Kurz vor Lichtgeschwindigkeit
Beton im Weltall klingt schon kurios, aber diesen auch noch auf der ISS anrühren – in einem selbstgebauten Mischer?...
Evolution oder Revolution?
Noch ist 5G im Mobilfunk das Maß aller Dinge und die Umstellung in vollem Gang. Gleichzeitig wird bereits an...
In Kürze
Die wichtigsten Neuigkeiten in der Übersicht Sicherheit für die Rechner der Zukunft Gute Nachrichten für die paluno-Arbeitsgruppe „Sichere Software...