Arno Rauschenbeutel

Professor Kevan Shokat at UCSF has achieved a breakthrough in cancer drug discovery.  The protein K-Ras has been described as “undruggable” for almost 40 years since its discovery as the first human oncogene in 1982.  There has been a worldwide hunt for a drug to inhibit its role in cancer,…

Nominated by: Melusine Reimers, Ruhr University Bochum Presented by: Dennis Michaelis

Fusion is a nuclear reaction that combines two light nuclei, producing energy; fusion reactions power stars like our sun. Producing energy from fusion would provide a carbon-free, clean, safe, and abundant source of electricity. Net energy production from fusion requires that the reactions occur in a ‘plasma’ hotter than the…

Monnalisa Bytes is an online science magazine to bridge the gap between science and the public, built with a new style that translates scientific contents into visual and dynamic digital contents. Tags: Education, Science Communication, Trust in science.

WISAARKHU aims to provide diversity, a collection, of perspectives on a chosen theme related to Mathematics. It is for inspiring, for creating awareness, for sharing experiences, for communicating, for connecting, for reflecting, creating collaborations, creating a more human way to teach that respect the authenticity of each human being and…

EAFIT Children’s University is an informal education and Science Engagement program that was designed to bring academia and research closer to other audiences and to encourage curiosity, create active learning experiences, promote intellectual enjoyment, and foster critical thinking in children. The program proposes to deal with scientific concepts in an…

Aleyna Yildiz is addressing the limited treatment options and poor prognosis of Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG), a common childhood brain tumour. Her proposed solution involves gene therapy to imitate mutations of the H3K27M gene, aiming to prolong life expectancy and control symptoms, with the potential vaccine classified as an…

SuperScientists is drawing living ~40 scientists in Africa as the superheroes they are and making trading cards and other materials that teach about science and the people behind it. We want learners to see scientists’ superpowers – catch a single virus and read its genome! – and that they are…

Andrea Fischer and colleagues present the first dating of glacier ice using less than 2 mL STP of argon from ∼5 kg of ice, finally opening the door for radioargon dating in glaciology. Alpine summit glaciers have a characteristic age range between 100 and 1,000 years. Reliable dating is the…

In a new normal after the pandemic as well as in the era of AI and trillion sensors, data traffic and related energy consumption will grow exponentially. Thus, for global sustainable development, a revolution in materials science is needed to lay the foundations for information technology that operates at a…