Spinors, which can be thought of as "square roots" of vectors, play a key role in differential geometry (the study of multidimensional smooth, curved spaces), with beautiful and often surprising connections to many areas within the subject. The most…

A neglected question in the history of scholarship is how and why Gerhard von Rad, the great Protestant theologian, nominated Karl Georg Kuhn to the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften. Kuhn, who pioneered the field of German Dead Sea Scrolls…

In reading Serhiy Zhadan’s novel Voroshilovgrad (2010), set in a fictional Ukraine in the early 2000s, an imaginative world where the dead and the living intermingle, and NoViolet Bulawayo’s Glory (2022), set in a fictional Zimbabwe in the 2010s,…

Human clinical surveillance in the African tropics
Dr. Sarah-Matio Elangwe Milo (Helmholtz-Institut für One Health, Greifswald)
At the Helmholtz Institute for One Health (HIOH) in Greifswald, we acknowledge the interconnection between the health of…

Functions of immune cells are linked to metabolic profiles, which are affected by changes in the tissue microenvironment. Focusing on bone regeneration after injury, we aim to understand how the microenvironment affects the metabolism of myeloid…

The initial triumph of Ukrainian society‘s resilience against Russian aggression often overshadows the growing sense of nostalgia and mourning. Deep sorrow over the losses and destruction intertwines with an awareness of irreversible changes and even…

The 10th jubilee of the international workshop on new trends in spintronics, Spins, Waves and Interactions 2025, will take place from the 1st to 3rd of September 2025, in Greifswald, Germany. This year, the focus sessions cover recent advances in…

Following infection, even “acute” viral and bacterial infections are often accompanied by prolonged antigen and/or inflammatory cue exposure, which can extend weeks after infectious pathogen is cleared. This is in contrast the relatively short…

For decades, scientists have been researching the possibility of harnessing the processes of solar energy production on Earth. Nuclear fusion - the fusion of light hydrogen nuclei to form helium - holds enormous potential as an almost inexhaustible,…

Hate speech, stigmatization, and exclusion are increasingly common and gaining acceptance in some circles, disproportionately affecting national, ethnic, religious, linguistic, and sexual minorities, as well as both real and imagined migrants in…