According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), around 12,000 people in Germany contract a form of leukemia every year. Six percent of these are children under 15 years of age. A statistic provided by the German Cancer Society shows that…
Anyone who follows Innovation Origins will know that there is a medieval remedy that helps against infections that can no longer be combated with antibiotics. British researchers recently demonstrated that a 1,000-year-old eye ointment made from onion, garlic, wine, and…
Researchers at the German Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) have analyzed the parallels between the corona pandemic and the climate crisis. In their analysis, they showed what policymakers and citizens can learn from the corona pandemic on the…
Professor Grazyna Ginalska remembers this patient very well. His name was Daniel Bardega. “He was a young man, a twenty-something year old. He was sitting on the back seat of a motorcycle when the accident happened. The crash threw him…
Heatwaves are rolling out around the world. Like last year, Europe felt the burden of high temperatures all summer long. It made us long for the beach or other places with open water. Which is exactly as indicated in most…
The number of new corona diagnoses in Europe continues to rise. Meanwhile, with the exception of a few tiny Swiss cantons, an increase is visible everywhere. In the second week of August, this rise was fastest in Spain and Belgium,…
Try buying a Roman amphora, an Etruscan vase, or a (pompous) baroque oil painting on the internet. If you do, there’s a good chance there’s an Italian policeman looking over your shoulder. Dozens of policemen scour the internet day after…
The Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) were the first to carry out a successful flight with a satellite that draws its current from solar cells that are not based on silicon but on perovskite…
Vitamin B12 is only found in animal proteins, i.e. in meat and dairy. This is why vegans often take supplements in order to get the amount they need. A sustainable diet implies eating less animal protein, as the Netherlands Nutrition…
Sometimes we almost forget how different planning and booking a vacation has become in comparison to what it was not so long ago. ‘In the old days,’ booking vacations was outsourced to specialized travel agencies. But with the advent of…