Why the most harmonious universe could also be the most unstable—and why cosmic order seems to favor irrationality. Human beings...
The warming of the Earth's atmosphere is causing the winds to blow more strongly, which is reflected in the currents of the world's oceans, on the surface and - as has recently been discovered - in the deep sea. Thus, climate change not only means a change in the air body of the earth, but also in its fluid organism, a change not only in its thermal organization, but also in its flow life.
Theoretical physicists have long argued that time is not real—that it is an illusion. This view logically follows the conception of space and time as a unified, four-dimensional “space-time continuum,” introduced by Hermann Minkowski and used by Albert Einstein to formulate his theories of relativity. Because the General Theory of...
Coming from biology and chemistry, Christoph Hueck received his doctorate in bacterial genetics. He worked as a Waldorf teacher and...
Florence, Italy. A new school for morphological and phenomenological sciences opens in Italy. The Italian city of Florence—capital of Tuscany—is...
Because of our consciousness, human beings are not a will-less “part” of nature, but its responsible, guiding partner. The future of Earth depends on us. How can we see this? Jan Diek van Mansvelt looks at cycles of dying and flourishing through corresponding developmental processes in human beings and plants,...
The three 2022 Nobel Laureates in Physics – John Clauser, Alain Aspect, and Anton Zeilinger – have experimentally shown that...
The leadership of the Natural Science Section changed in the new year. Johannes Wirz handed along his position to Vesna...
Goethe developed a new method for studying nature, both inorganic and organic. His intention was to uncover the natural law—the essence, the being, the idea—of a thing by introducing a special way of beholding the phenomena—the manifestations of the thing—in order to gain knowledge and insight. This approach was not...
Brussels, Belgium. A historic decision by the European Union’s trilogue parties. After lengthy negotiations, the European Commission, the European Council,...
Craig Holdrege is director of the ‹Nature Institute› in Ghent. Its goal is to broaden the view of nature from...
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