Climate change, AI, and global crises: To find out how participatory and interdisciplinary research at the Berlin University Alliance is helping to find solutions to these grand challenges of our time, read the new Close Up.
The "innovate! call" is aimed at researchers in chemistry and materials science with a view to developing sustainable solutions for practical application.
The podcast is a journey to the Republic's Clusters of Excellence and in the current episode takes us to the MATH+ Cluster of Excellence in Berlin and how mathematical methods can contribute to a more economical use of resources.
The philosopher and sociologist Jürgen Habermas died in early March. In this interview, Philipp Felsch, Professor of Cultural History at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, talks about Habermas, his era and the significance of his work.
Exhibition, book launch and workshops from 10 to 12 April, organised in collaboration between the Centre for British Studies at Humboldt University and the University of Oxford.
Researchers at the Science of Intelligence (SCIoI) Cluster of Excellence are investigating how the brain produces a stable image despite the jerky movements of our eyes. To do this, they use afterimages as an experimental tool.
Social scientists from HU are investigating the causes of the link between growing income and wealth disparities and increasing support for populist parties in Europe.
World Water Day on 22 March serves as a reminder of just how precious – and yet how limited – clean water is. This issue is also a focus of Timothy Moss, a senior researcher at IRI THESys at Humboldt University.
The Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU) officially opened the Berlin Battery Lab (BBL) on 19 March.
Researchers from Berlin have demonstrated a new method for generating single photons in a diamond-based quantum system. This progress brings quantum technologies an important step closer to practical applications.
Whether it’s quantum physics, robot programming or battery chemistry: the institutes at HU in Adlershof are opening their laboratories and inviting school pupils to experience high-tech careers and research first-hand.
The first finds from the SIRIS Project, which is based at the Winckelmann Institute for Classical Archaeology at Humboldt-Universität, are already on display at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale della Siritide in Policoro.
