Bio-inspired Design

From Pine Cone to Building Facade

A model displayed at Futurium shows the principle behind the way some plants distribute their seeds: Dr Michaela Eder from the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (MPIKG) explains what...

Bioeconomy and Futurium

Speech at the launch event for the Year of Science

By Stefan Brandt – Almost 50 years have now passed since the Club of Rome pointed out “the limits to growth”. Since 1972 at the very latest, it’s been known that we cannot continue our...

At sea and inside the laboratory with scientist Gunnar Gerdts

Tracking down microplastic

Our oceans are not only home to large pieces of plastic, but also minute plastic particles. Today researchers know that this microplastic can be found in all regions, and even in arctic sea ice....

HOW RESEARCHERS WANT TO GET NUCLEAR FUSION ENERGY INTO SHAPE FOR THE ENERGY MARKET

ON THE WAY TO FUSION

The stars up above draw their energy from nuclear fusion. And here down below, researchers have been working for the last six decades on ways to harness this tremendous power for use on earth....

HOW THE ENGLISH TOWN OF TOTNES TURNED A UTOPIAN IDEA INTO A LIVING EXPERIMENT

PLOUGHING THE FIELDS BETWEEN BLOCKS OF FLATS

Fresh, local, social: how can urban agriculture work? In “The Power of Just Doing Stuff”, Rob Hopkins, the founder of the Transition movement, gives answers.

How Neurourbanism Aims to Counteract Mental Illness

How much city makes us sick?

Whoever spends a long time living in a city containing more than a million people has a higher risk of developing schizophrenia than those living in the countryside. In an interview conducted by...