Gerhard Knies

In a project funded by the Federal Foreign Office, our students designed a collection of board games. Each game transforms a different aspect of politics into a board game. All board games are available as Print-and-Play PDF versions, all source files are available under a Creative Commons license, for easy…

Drawing inspiration from the electrocardiogram, Prof Chen created a conformable electrode as a ‘communication’ device with plants to deliver reliable electrical signals to and from plants. This innovation in plant electronics leads to the first plant-based robot that can perform delicate tasks with superior power efficiency (10,000 times less than…

HOW PRIMATE NEUROSCIENCE REVEALS THE MECHANISMS OF OUR PERCEPTION Who does not fear attention disorders? How many times have we over-looked what was right before our eyes? Many are the paranoias of a society drowning in a deluge of information. While we know that attention disorders, like attention deficit hyperactivity…

Roman Fasel obtained his PhD in Physics in 1996 from the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) and joined Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, after post-doctoral research fellowships at La Trobe University (Melbourne) and the Fritz-Haber-Institute (Berlin). He is the head of the nanotech@surfaces Laboratory of Empa,…

Finding and harnessing sources of energy has been a major task in the history of humankind. Similar to the resourceful nature of the sun, man-made nuclear power can produce large amounts of energy from few resources. It includes fusion and fission processes and the pros and cons of fission processes…

Nominated by: Heyo Kroemer, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin Presented by: Viktor Matyas

PRESENTED BY Tatiana Stella NOMINATED BY The University of Milano-Bicocca Tags: Contamination, Microbiology, Biological Reclamation

The nominating institution Austrian Academy of Sciences on the breakthrough: Cachexia is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in various cancers, chronic inflammation and infections. But our understanding of it is limited, especially infection-associated cachexia (IAC). In the present paper, Bergthaler and his colleagues describe a model of reversible…

Ent- is an immersive projection exploring the impacts of quantum computing through a perception-based experience. As the only artist in the world working directly with quantum computing & art, Heaney wrote her own code for IBM’s quantum computers to reveal unique signatures of entanglement & used these to create a…

Yara Marei’s project, Z-Enviroil, addresses the critical issue of oil spills, offering a comprehensive solution that not only instantly retrieves spills on both wet and dry surfaces but also aids companies in overcoming economic crises associated with fines, health rehabilitation, and tanker repairs. The innovative technology ensures the efficient recovery…