Life in Super-Resolution: Light Microscopy Beyond the Diffraction Limit
Physicists and Nobel Laureates Stefan Hell and Steven Chu use super-resolution light microscopy to investigate the cellular world on a nanoscopic scale.Physicists and Nobel Laureates Stefan Hell and Steven Chu use super-resolution light microscopy to investigate the cellular world on a nanoscopic scale.
Walter Kohn passed away
Walter Kohn, 9 March 1923 - 19 April 2016Walter Kohn, 9 March 1923 - 19 April 2016
„The laureates enjoyed to reveal a little bit about themselves“
Volker Steger had an unusual idea: he asked Nobel Laureates to draw their respective topics, then he photographed them with their sketches. An exhibition of these remarkable images has already travelled around the world.
Nature Outlook 2014: Medical Research Masterclass (from Lindau)
Nature once again has published a special supplement on occasion of the Lindau Meeting – this time taking you on a trip to the frontiers of medical research.
New Film „The Long Goodbye“
Getting to grips with the realities of an ageing global population: The second film of the 2014 Nature Video series „A Picture of Health“ is out now.
New Film Series „A Picture of Health“
The trailer of the 2014 Nature Video film series and the film „HIV in hiding“ are out now!
Research For the Dogs – Young Scientist profiles
Dogs play a crucial role in human cancer research.
Sketches of Science – Nobel Pictures
Three years ago I met the photographer Volker Steger for the first time. He prepared one of the ‚secret’ rooms in the Inselhalle in Lindau. Huge white sheets of paper and wax crayons lay around. You would not have guessed, that what happend there, was high art with simple means. It was the 60ths Nobel […]
Behind the greatest experiments: basic research
Insight must precede application. — Max Planck, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1918 One summer day a young Martin Chalfie walked out of a lab after a particularly frustrating experiment. He thought—quite erroneously—that the life of a scientist was not for him. After teaching high school chemistry for some years, he gave one more try. Working […]
Nature Lindau video: The energy endgame
In the next 100 years or so, we will run out of fossil fuels. In this film, Nobel laureates Mario Molina and Robert Laughlin challenge three young physicists to think seriously about the energy endgame and their children’s futures. Molina believes
Nature Lindau video: A golden age?
The Hubble Space Telescope has shown us distant galaxies and planets orbiting other stars, deepening our knowledge of the Universe. Nobel prizewinner John Mather works on Hubble’s replacement, the James Webb Space Telescope. He believes we are in a golden age of astronomy. But the young researchers he meets are not convinced. There are