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This February was quite exciting for all space enthusiasts, as three spacecraft were arriving at Mars: Hope (Emirates Mars Mission) and Tianwen-1 (China’s Mars Mission) entered Martian orbit to investigate
A year ago, the German newspaper “Die Zeit” published a critical report on how many trees the nonprofit Plant-for-the-Planet (PftP) actually plants. After researching – by its own account –
We start right at the beginning of Cixin Liu’s novel Death’s End, when the theoretical physicist Yang Dong finds herself in the control room of a supercomputer facility. In former times
Just two weeks after I started my PhD at TU Dresden I attended my first conference as a PhD student. It wasn’t a specialist research conference though. The “Second Conference
The last couple of months, Corona has turned the world upside down. Or better say from outside to inside, and suddenly we found ourselves as part of an experiment in remote
Every time you undertake research, you are creating new knowledge about our world and, thus, new data. The challenge is now: How to store and manage all of this data
When Ulugh Beg Madrasa was built in 1420, it soon became one of the educational centers of Central Asia, attracting astronomers, mathematicians and scholars from all over the Islamic world. Today it
Over the past couple of years I had the pleasure of meeting several highly ambitious high school students, for example undertaking early study (as I did), attending hackathons or even
Since finishing high school (back then a time of rather high workload) I have been intrigued with sleeping multiples periods a day, so-called polyphasic sleep, which promises a serious increase in
On the one hand, long tail distributions (a fancy name for something like 1/x) are well studied in science when it comes to outliers. They demonstrate, that although outliers are