Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard – The Grande Dame of Developmental Biology

“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.

Ageing, God and Lindau: An Interview with Aaron Ciechanover

Nobel Laureate Aaron Ciechanover is talking about medical progress and its implications.

A Statistical View on the 2014 Meetings

609 participants from 80 countries at the 64th Lindau Meeting, and 458 from 86 countries at the 5th Lindau Meeting on Economic Sciences – these numbers (and there are more!) are too tempting to not look more closely.

New Topic Cluster: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

The Lindau Mediatheque published its newest immersive topic cluster today dedicated to NMR, ‘the music of matter’.

Interview: Ghada Bassioni, Global Scientist

From young scientist to honorary guest in only two years – find out how Ghada Bassioni took the chances the Lindau Meeting offered her.

Spooky Science: The Most Horrifying Nobel Lectures for Halloween

Watch this bloodcurdling, spine-chilling collection of Nobel Laureate lectures from Lindau sharing indispendable life hacks for all the monsters, ghosts, witches and zombies out there.

Paul Dirac: The Quiet Genius Died 30 Years Ago

He is considered to be an important founding father of modern quantum physics, his books are still standard reference works, and many people have heard of one of the technical terms named after him. But who is the person behind these terms – who was Paul Dirac?

Sketches of Science exhibition travels to Korea

The photo exhibition Sketches of Science can now be seen at Gwacheon National Science Museum in Seoul.

Mario Vargas Llosa: Confessions of a Latin American Liberal

Peruvian born writer and political activist Mario Vargas Llosa received the Nobel Prize in Literature in the year 2010 ‘for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’s resistance, revolt, and defeat’. During the 5th Lindau Meeting on Economic Sciences Vargas Llosa held his presentation titled ‘Confessions of a Latin […]

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!