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All articlesSidney L. Tamm
A remarkable symbiotic protozoan in the hindgut of termites was accidentally discovered. Its head and body continuously rotated in opposite directions without stopping or reversing directions. Rotations included the plasma membrane of each part of the cell, and the membrane was continuous across the…
Koen Beumer
The governance of risk is a highly technical endeavor. If we want to know whether a product like a chemical substance poses a risk to human health and should be regulated, we have to conduct laboratory tests under highly controlled conditions. We may for example expose a number of mice to the…
Maximilian Roßmann
This is the story of my serendipitous invention of a popcorn effect in thermal biomass gasification and the role of scientific imagination. In 2011, during my time at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) in Freiburg, I embarked on a project that would unexpectedly lead to a small…
David Grüning
The Better-Than-Average Effect (BTAE, Zell et al., 2020) describes the psychological phenomenon that individuals overestimate their positive characteristics in comparison to others. The BTAE is a special case of a broader phenomenon of self-enhancement effects, which is a robust finding of…
Jim van Belzen
When appointed as PhD-candidate to work on coastal ecosystems as nature-based coastal protection I started working on the processes that could limit saltmarsh ecosystems from establishing on tidal flats. Saltmarshes seaward of the sea defence attenuate waves and offer flood protection in case of a…
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