Wasser-Forschung in der Megacity! 💧

Mexiko-Stadt (23 Mio. Einw.) kämpft mit Wassermangel & Fluten.

Christopher Funk (Masterstudent "Sustainable Water Management") hat vor Ort analysiert, wie das #Schwammstadt-Konzept helfen kann. 🏙️

Im Auftrag unseres Instituts für nachhaltige Wassersysteme erforschte er das Potenzial an zwei Schulen.

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They race, they leap, they spin, they shoot. Meet the organisms for whom physical prowess is more than sport — it’s a matter of life and death.

✍️ Amber Dance
🎨 Maki Naro

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2026/welcome-to-the-microbial-olympic-games

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These chemical oddities may explain why Earth seems to be deficient in certain elements. 📝 Learn more about this in our recent article republished by Ars Technica.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/01/meet-the-mysterious-electrides/

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Meet the mysterious electrides

These chemical oddities may explain why Earth seems to be deficient in certain elements.

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Farming animals for fur is not only cruel but also provides an ideal environment for viruses to mix and cross over into humans.

✍️ Jane Qiu

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2026/chinese-fur-farms-deadly-for-people-and-animals

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Why disease outbreaks on Chinese fur farms are a serious risk to public health

Farming animals for fur is not only cruel but also provides an ideal environment for viruses to mix and cross over into humans

Knowable Magazine | Annual Reviews

Das Unmögliche möglich machen – weil man nicht wusste, dass es unmöglich ist. 🎶🚀

So eröffnete Prof. Lutz Fügener unsere Neujahrsvorlesung 2026: Mit der angeblich "unsingbaren" Arie aus "Das fünfte Element". Früher noch ein digitaler Trick, heute bereits live gesungen.

Ein starkes Plädoyer für den Mut zur Vision! Ohne Fantasie kein Fortschritt. ✨

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From monkeys washing potatoes to cockatoos raiding trash cans, socially spread behaviors allow creatures to adapt more rapidly to changing environments than conventional evolution would allow. But the traits are also more easily lost.

✍️ Tim Vernimmen

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2022/cultural-transmission-makes-animals-flexible-vulnerable

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Cultural transmission makes animals flexible, but vulnerable

From monkeys washing potatoes to cockatoos raiding trash cans, socially spread behaviors allow creatures to adapt more rapidly to changing environments than conventional evolution would allow. But the traits are also more easily lost.

Knowable Magazine | Annual Reviews

#Opinion ✍️ If we’re truly serious about protecting animal species from extinction, we should learn more about how they reproduce.

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2022/the-importance-understanding-wildlife-sex

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The importance of understanding wildlife sex

OPINION: If we’re truly serious about protecting animal species from extinction, we should learn more about how they reproduce

Knowable Magazine | Annual Reviews

In the US, people charged with a crime usually need to post a large cash bond to be released before trial — a system used barely anywhere else in the world. This doesn’t enhance public safety and causes great hardship to defendants and families. There’s a better way, researchers say.

✍️ M. Mitchell Waldrop

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2022/doing-away-cash-bail

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Doing away with cash bail

In the US, people charged with a crime usually need to post a large cash bond to be released before trial — a system used barely anywhere else in the world. This doesn’t enhance public safety and causes great hardship to defendants and families. There’s a better way, researchers say.

Knowable Magazine | Annual Reviews

Scientists find that a small amount of animal products could have a place in our diets without wreaking environmental havoc. But it’s far less than what we consume today, and only if farmed in just the right way.

✍️ Bob Holmes

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/food-environment/2022/how-much-meat-can-we-eat-sustainably

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How much meat can we eat — sustainably?

Scientists find that a small amount of animal products could have a place in our diets without wreaking environmental havoc. But it’s far less than what we consume today, and only if farmed in just the right way.

Knowable Magazine | Annual Reviews

The famously dry region has long been dismissed as a mostly lifeless wasteland, good for little more than mining of minerals and precious metals. To these researchers, however, it’s a microbial gold mine worthy of protection.

✍️ Lindzi Wessel

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2022/treasure-hunt-microbes-chile-atacama-desert

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A treasure hunt for microbes in Chile’s Atacama desert

The famously dry region has long been dismissed as a mostly lifeless wasteland, good for little more than mining of minerals and precious metals. To these researchers, however, it’s a microbial gold mine worthy of protection.

Knowable Magazine | Annual Reviews