Y oung scientists get a seat at the table in discussions about German universities of the future. Reform is prescribed from above; revolution comes from below. And PhD students and postdocs in Germany are frustrated that their voices have not been properly heard in the discussions surrounding university reform in Germany. But now they have been invited to find new answers to the question "What sh...
BACK TO THE FEATURE INDEX As I sit down to type this article, one of my first as a freelance science journalist, it's interesting to reflect on the road I've travelled. I started off with a passion for basic research, so why am I now trying to communicate science to the masses? Academia It was the early 1990s. The developing world was being ravaged by AIDS, and new medical understanding and cures...
Auch wenn Dorothea Pauls später einmal Kinder haben will: "Jetzt kann ich mir das einfach noch nicht vorstellen", sagt die 23 Jahre alte Chemiestudentin. "Ich möchte erst mal promovieren und ein paar Jahre arbeiten." So wie Dorothea denken viele Studierende: Drei Viertel der Studierenden haben Kinder fest in ihrem Lebensentwurf eingeplant, aber erst später. Mädchen und junge Frauen sind heute ehr...
When the Ariane space rocket lifts off, it is fuelled not just by hydrocarbons and liquid oxygen but by the brainpower that goes into numerous calculations, computer simulations, and test flights. As a result, scientists account for over half of the employees in the space industry, a higher proportion than in any other sector. The European Union's recent green paper on space policy states that th...
