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Why Learning Is Child’s Play

Arunima Roy

Why Learning Is Child’s Play

Developing brains are designed to learn from the environment and research shows just how adept kids are at extracting knowledge from the world around them. Are our educational systems the best way to support this development?

Young Scientist Sara Dumit Earns Back-to-Back Awards for her Interdisciplinary Research

Daniela Thiel

Young Scientist Sara Dumit Earns Back-to-Back Awards for her Interdisciplinary Research

Besides having been selected in 2021 to participate in the 70th and the 71st Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings as a young scientist, Sara Dumit has recently received two consecutive prestigious awards for her interdisciplinary research in Health Physics.

Mentoring, Publishing Results, and Communication in Science – Workshops on the Lindau Guidelines and the Lindau Mentoring Hub

Hanna Kurlanda-Witek

Mentoring, Publishing Results, and Communication in Science – Workshops on the Lindau Guidelines and the Lindau Mentoring Hub

During #LINO22, two workshops were dedicated to initiatives of the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings that were launched in 2020: the Lindau Guidelines and the Lindau Mentoring Hub. What progress has been made by these two recent projects and what do young scientists think about the future directions of these initiatives?

Fighting COVID-19 While Mitigating Global Climate Change

Daniela Thiel

Fighting COVID-19 While Mitigating Global Climate Change

Killing two birds with one stone: fighting COVID-19 while mitigating global climate change

White LEDs: When Good Tech is Applied Badly

Ben Skuse

White LEDs: When Good Tech is Applied Badly

How can a technology at least 10 times longer lasting and half as power hungry as its rivals be accused of being eco-unfriendly?

New Approach to Tumour Diseases

Daniela Thiel

New Approach to Tumour Diseases

Charlotte Dahlem, young scientist #LINO70, was awarded for her new approach to cancer therapy.

Handling COVID-19 and Climate Change, a Familiar Tragedy Looms

Andrei Mihai

Handling COVID-19 and Climate Change, a Familiar Tragedy Looms

What do green pastures, COVID-19, and climate change have in common? More than you probably think, it´s all about the "Tragedy of the Commons".

How Corona Changed My Research – and My Way to Lindau

Khalid El Bairi

How Corona Changed My Research – and My Way to Lindau

Khalid El Bairi explains how the coronavirus has changed its current research. He was invited to the 70th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting.

Women in Research: Alice Fletcher-Etherington From the United Kingdom

Ulrike Böhm

Women in Research: Alice Fletcher-Etherington From the United Kingdom

Alice is interested in how viruses interact with host cell intrinsic immune responses.

Support for the Low Carbon Economy

Daniela Thiel

Support for the Low Carbon Economy

Martin Hänsel and Frikk Nesje have published a paper about climate change and economy. Martin will participate in the Meeting 2021 and Frikk was in Lindau in 2017.

Women in Research: Eleni Karatza From Greece

Ulrike Böhm

Women in Research: Eleni Karatza From Greece

Eleni from Greece listens to what the data have to say.

Women in Research: Katrin Fürsich From Germany

Ulrike Böhm

Women in Research: Katrin Fürsich From Germany

Katrin focuses on the spectroscopic investigation of quantum materials.