Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 10 hours 49 minutes
Are we alone in space? What could extraterrestrial life forms look it? And how do we find them? These questions are almost as old as mankind itself. Natural Scientist and former Einstein International Postdoctoral Fellow Riccardo Giovanni Urso tries to answer them every day. In this episode of #AskDifferent, he talks about his scientific journeys through space, basic ingredients for life, and why he would love to be onboard a mission to mars.
Preprints have been shared in the physics community since the early 1950s but mostly among well established professors. Physicist Paul Ginsparg, who received the first Einstein Foundation's Individual Award for Promoting Quality in Research in 2021, set out to democratize access to scientific results. Today, his preprint server arXiv has spread to many other fields - and made science progress more efficient and fairer. In this episode, he reflects on his motivation to create arXiv...
Mini-Organe aus der Petrischale: Die Biotechnologin Anna Löwa beschäftigt sich in ihrer Forschung mit sogenannten Organoiden, speziellen Zellkulturen beispielsweise des Gehirns oder der Lunge. Diese Organoide können die Strukturen und Funktionen einzelner Organe darstellen und damit einen Zugang zur Erforschung und Behandlung menschlicher Erkrankungen ermöglichen. Die junge Wissenschaftlerin ist Postdoc am Einstein-Zentrum 3R für alternative Methoden in der biomedizinischen Forschung...
Mancherorts ist der Wasserstand der langsam fließenden Spree so niedrig, dass sie gar ihre Laufrichtung ändert: Eins von vielen Beispielen, an denen die Ökologin Britta Tietjen erklärt, wie es um die Ressource Wasser in Berlin-Brandenburg steht. Als Sprecherin der Einstein Research Unit "Climate and Water Under Chance (CliWaC), modelliert Tietjen mögliche Zukunftsszenarien von regionalen Ökosystemen...
Everyone is familiar with globalization, its problems and discontents. But how to correspond to it politically? Andrew Hurrell is Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford and has spent much time studying liberal ideas about globalization: how it has evolved in modern times as well as its current challenges like populism, pandemics, climate change, and war...
Chris Sander, Professor for Cell Biology from Harvard Medical School and one of the founders of bioinformatics, works to understand the "labyrinth" of cancer growth. The aim of his current research as an Einstein Visiting Fellow at the Berlin Institute of Health is to find out how to block the side doors through which aggressive cancer types manage to escape medical blockage during a treatment...
Careful work and self-criticism is not rewarded enough in today's accelerated research culture, Dorothy Bishop thinks. A jury member of the 2021 Einstein Foundation Award for Promoting Quality in Research, the Professor of Developmental Neuropsychology at the University of Oxford advocates for evidence-driven, open science practices and a new incentive structure...
As a social neuroscientist, Vittorio Gallese has a unique understanding of how we live together. Until recently, he headed a research group at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain focusing on the development of socio-cultural identities. Back in Italy, the Professor of Psychobiology from Università di Parma, who is widely known for his discovery of mirror neurons, continues to explore the cognitive structures of empathy and sympathy...
Inwiefern sind Sportvereine, Cafés, Shisha-Bars und Fußballstadien für das Verständnis der Gesellschaft interessant? Das erklärt in dieser Folge die Stadtsoziologin Talja Blokland von der Humboldt-Universität. Im Einstein-Zirkel "Large-Scale Organisation" hat sie Begegnungsorte unter die Lupe genommen um herauszufinden, wie der urbane Raum strukturiert ist und wie sich Ungleichheit verstetigt...
Viola Vogel, Bioingenieurin an der ETH Zürich, erforscht als Einstein Visiting Fellow an der Charité, wie mechanische Kräfte auf Zellen einwirken und so Wachstum und Bewegung steuern. Das bessere Verständnis von Zellprozessen auf Nanoebene könnte eine Bandbreite neuer Therapien ermöglichen, die gezielt die Heilung von beschädigtem Gewebe anregen, ob nach einer Lungenentzündung durch Covid-19 oder einer Krebserkrankung...