2.2021 | In motion
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Message from the Editors, Table of Content
Spotlight
Stroboscope images for physics lessons
Motion with consequences
Animal migration in the “Serengeti of the East"
The extraordinary migratory behaviour of the Mongolian gazelle poses major challenges for nature conservation
By Markus Bernards
Ocean sunshade
How clouds influence climate change
By Andreas Lorenz-Meyer
When cancer cells migrate
How metastases develop in the brain
By Anja Störiko
Faster and faster
The unmoved mover
How the tiniest particles approach the speed of light
By Dirk Eidemüller
Video recognition:
Spot the difference?
By Markus Bernards
Tickling Schrödinger's cat
When a molecule flies apart and stays bound at the same time
By Dirk Eidemüller
Humans in motion
Kids' stuff?
ADHD can affect adults too
By Jan Schwenkenbecher
What can sport achieve?
Final score from a research project on immigrant integration
By Jan Schwenkenbecher
Dampening cramp
Sports physician shows that targeted training with electrical impulses raises cramp threshold frequency
By Anne Hardy
Motion with meaning
Speaking with our hands
How gestures and facial expressions can underline, supplement and modify the meaning of words
By Anke Sauter
The fox who came in from the cold
How biologist Günter Tembrock used film for his behavioural research
By Sophia Gräfe
Mobile production, mobile consumption
How the mobility of devices has changed film production
By Laura Laabs
1.2021 | The Pandemic: What´s Here To Stay
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Reasons of state in the pandemic
Life in the pandemic
The heart after COVID-19
Not all long-term damage disappears without treatment
Anne Hardy
The conspicuous absence of crowds Escape or confrontation?
How the pandemic has influenced the way we watch movies
Isadora Campregher Paiva
Plague and excess
A deadly plague in ancient Athens left its mark on Europe's cultural memory
Hartmut Leppin
Coronavirus as magnifier
Emerging stronger from the crisis
The crisis as an opportunity
Economic policy mistakes and new scope for action
Stefan Terliesner
Learning from crises
Data from the 2008 financial crisis shed light on the potential consequences of the pandemic
Markus Gangl
“We need to rethink the system"
Lessons from the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic for the future of healthcare
Anja Störiko
The Bed Forecast
Data models calculate intensive care bed requirements for the next two weeks
Andreas Lorenz-Meyer
2.2020 | Climate Crisis
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Message from the editors and content
What influences the atmosphere
Global warming: Once a promise, now a threat
On the research of the greenhouse effect up to the Paris Climate Agreement
Markus Bernards
When the Arctic was tropical
What we can learn from the warm periods of the past
Anne Hardy
Greenhouse gases thought dead
Searching for traces in the atmosphere
Jan Schwenkenbecher
Living in a changing climate
Adaptation or extinction: Species diversity in a warming world
Can mutually dependent plants and animals stay in sync?
Markus Bernards
The forest of the future…
… needs different trees. Researchers are working out which ones
Jan Schwenkenbecher
The parasites invasion
Tropical diseases
Heinz Hänel
The source of life
How climate change affects global groundwater levels
Tim Schröder
Humans and climate crisis
The power of the pen
I consume, therefore I am
Why sustainable consumer behaviour is so difficult to realise
Birgit Blättel-Mink
Water as a weapon
Climate change makes perfidious forms of exercising power even more effective and harmful
Christina Kohler
»As if the Earth were for all time Earth«
How German literature relates the story of the era of the Great Acceleration
Bernhard Malkmus
Back to the future
How a new stage play evolved at Schauspiel Frankfurt
From knowledge to action
Wrangling at length
A brief overview of the (less than successful) pas de deux between science and politics in the struggle to mitigate climate change
Birgit Blättel-Mink
Overcoming our weaker ecological self
Why it is so difficult to abandon old habits
Jeannette Schmid
(In)credibly green?
How investors seek orientation in the booming green bond market
Pia Barth
Taking action on climate change
Main? Or Milan?
How climate change is making itself felt in Frankfurt am Main and what the city can do about it
Stephan M. Hübner
MOtiVES
Making mobility climate-friendly without sacrifice
Anja Störiko
Underwater battery in a quarry lake
Innovative intermediate storage for solar and wind energy
Anne Hardy
Fusion energy: Solar fire on Earth
The vision of clean and inexhaustible electricity
Dirk Eidemüller
How EU agricultural policy could contribute to climate protection
Heike Nitsch and Jörg Schramek
Standpoint: Will we sort it out or not?
News from science and research
1.2020 | Living in a digital world – opportunities, risks, and side-effects
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»Digital technologies are naturally no panacea«
Interview with Friedericke Hardering, labour market sociologist
By Anke Sauter
Of shitstorms and »candystorms«
Interview with sociologist Christian Stegbauer
By Dirk Frank
The »Criminal Law« of predictive society
…or how »smart« algorithms (could) change the administration of criminal justice
By Christoph Burchard
When trust no longer plays a role
On the future of freedom in smart orders
By Klaus Günther
»I have nothing to hide« – really?
Differentiation versus discrimination by AI, algorithms and digital services
By Indra Spiecker genannt Döhmann
»The flypaper problem«
Data protection in theory and practice: a conversation with Professor Indra Spiecker
By Anke Sauter
Copyright law in dispute
Digital access culture vs. analogue culture of exclusivity
By Alexander Peukert
A question of striking the right balance
How do digital media influence how we think and act?
By Yee Lee Shing, Isabelle Ehrlich and Christian Fiebach
A »flight recorder« for better learning
»Learning analytics«: Making digital data usable for greater educational success
By Anja Störiko
A new type of writer
The first book by AI author »B. Writer«
By Jan Schwenkenbecher