How Companies Have Made Their Production Climate-neutral – Interview with Nils Rödenbeck

“We want to reverse global warming!”

Is climate-neutral production impossible? More and more companies want to prove the opposite. One of them is the US carpet manufacturer “Interface”. Nils Rödenbeck, Managing Director of the...

GUEST CONTRIBUTION BY COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGIST NADINE SCHLICHTING, WHO IS RESEARCHING THE SUBJECTIVE PERCEPTION OF TIME AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN

HOW DO WE PERCEIVE TIME?

For the perception of light, temperature and sound we’ve got specific sensory organs: light-sensitive receptors in the retina of our eyes, temperature-sensitive receptors in our skin, and...

HOW CITIZENS GENERATE THEIR OWN ELECTRICITY

LOCALLY GENERATED ENERGY

How can citizens produce their own electricity? Which technologies are available? How can electricity be shared with others? How reliable is it all? And what does it cost?

Marine trash vortexes

Garbage Patches

In huge, rotating ocean currents known as gyres, plastic waste has compacted into so-called garbage patches that cause massive damage to the environment. How do these patches emerge and where are...

LEONHARD GRILL GOT THE MOLECULE ROLLING

WHAT IF WE COULD MOVE MOLECULES TO WHEREVER WE WANT THEM?

Molecules are the basic building blocks of life. That’s why so many scientists are conducting research into what might be possible with them. Experimental physicist Leonhard Grill is one such...

Restaurant im Futuirum

Recipe for the Holidays

In this pre-Christmas time, and specially for you, the chefs at the Restaurant at Futurium are going to lift the lids off their saucepans to reveal their favourite recipe for the Holiday season....