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by Manuel Vollbrecht
Figure 1: Running up walls and jumping over roofs like Spiderman for once…. ¹
Every single person has probably imagined once what life as a superhero with special skills would be like. Of course, we all know that most of the skills that actually define superheroes are supernatural and (unfortunately) come entirely from the imaginations of the authors and filmmakers.
About Ice Cores Part III
Ice cores preserve stories of the past. Now we want to compare these stories with other history books. Illustration: Hanna Knahl
We have now already learned a lot about ice cores. We know where to find them, how to drill them and how to extract information about the past climate from them. BUT there is still one important piece of information missing. The time stamp. How do we determine how far back in time the ice we hold with our gloved hands comes from? We will see, the ice also uses special languages to encode this secret.
About Ice Cores Part II
Cross-section of an ice core. Photo: Sepp Kipfstuhl
In the first article about ice cores, we learned why ancient stories lie dormant in the ice. We got to the icy library and looked at how the stories can be recovered in the form of ice cores. This article will deal with the question how we can reveal the stories of the ice cores. To do this, we need to understand the different languages of the ice.
“MINT Together in Dialogue – New Ways in Science Communication” was the challenge of Club MINT – an initiative of The Stifterverband in Germany.
We took on this challenge – with success:
About Ice Cores Part I
A transforming icy library slowly descending towards the valley. Glacier in the northeast of Greenland. Photo: Jan Rohde
On earth there is a lot of ice and snow and not only in winter – at least at the moment. At the poles there are huge sheets of ice and in between exist many smaller and larger glaciers on high mountains. Stories are preserved in the ice. Stories from long ago. How this happened and how these stories can be brought to the surface, we will learn in this article.
Ronja Gronemeyer
What is it about the 2D wonder material that makes physicists and science fiction fans dream of the future?
We will find out what the hype is based on and how we can produce this material of superlatives at home.
by Jan Yorrick Dietrich
Figure 1: Four dimensions of a nice vehicle. The red volume might be a formula one car while the green volume might represent a rally car.
Have you ever asked yourself why you cannot have a vehicle that is as fast as a rocket, as agile as a formula one car and as robust as a monster truck at the same time? The rocket might be lightning fast, though it will probably fail on tight bends. The formula one car may be quite fast and agile, though it will probably break down quite fast if not carefully driven on asphalt. Well, and a monster truck might be very robust, though it may be slow in comparison. In many fields of research, scientists encounter the same issues as described above. Every new development comes with certain downsides. If you try to satisfy every need, you might get a Jack of all trades, master of none.
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