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May 18, 2016

A Chemistry Set for Experts

Hope in golden yellow: Mathias Dimde, a research associate on the team headed by Dirk Steinhilber and Professor Rainer Haag, turns a flask containing dendritic polyglycerol.

Dirk Steinhilber has developed a method of producing highly tolerable nanogels and microgels. Researchers hope they will help to revolutionize treatment of serious diseases.

Hope is golden colored and slippery. It is kept in flasks in the refrigerators at the Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Freie Universität in Dahlem, where it is now produced by the kilogram. Polyglycerol is its name, and it is a highly promising base material for hydrogel particles.

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The Tale of the Happy Cow

For the camera: Modern agriculture is less romantic.

Historian Veronika Settele studies the history of animal husbandry in Germany.

Fields, a pigsty, chicken coop, tractor, a farm dog, and a big house in the middle – that’s the image many Germans have of farms to this day. Most of them are probably aware that it is no longer accurate, but very few know what conditions are truly like on Germany’s turkey, pig, and cattle farms.

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Graduates in Academia and the Research Sector, Government Ministries, and the European Commission

The “big wheel” turns in Germany: According to calculations by the Strom-Report portal, about 45 percent of the wind turbines installed in Europe are located in Germany.

The Environmental Policy Research Centre looks back on a 30-year success story.

On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, in what is now Ukraine, was the site of the world’s first nuclear disaster, when a true “worst-case scenario” unfolded. The Environmental Policy Research Centre (FFU) at Freie Universität had been founded just three days before as a research unit.

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