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Agricultural economist Hermann Lotze-Campen leads climate resilience research at the world-famous Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), and he’s also a professor of sustainable land use and climate change at Humboldt University in Berlin. In this interview, he explains more about the relationships...

Once the preserve of science fiction, cultivated meat has become a reality. According to its advocates, it is a way to revolutionise food with more environmentally and ethically sound meat. Even though it is not allowed in the EU yet, will cultivated meat soon be on European plates?   In 2013, Professor...

Interview with researcher, project and programme manager Teodora Konach on research integrity and open science in Europe.   According to experts, research integrity and open science, whereby research data and processes are freely available to re-use, are of the utmost importance for a high quality of...

This year many elections are set to be held, but generational gaps, social and economic disparities can lead to inequality in the democratic process. How can we make democracy work for everyone?   This was the question that was explored at the Panel for the Future of Science and Technology’s (STOA) Annual...

"Once we start seeing ourselves only in terms of data, we’ve reduced ourselves to something that can be bought and sold." Interview with philosopher and cognitive scientist Ophelia Deroy.   Professor Ophelia Deroy (Ludwig Maximilians Universität München, Munich Interactive Intelligence lab and University...

In 2024, the world will witness pivotal elections, including those for the European Parliament in June. With political populism, polarisation and turmoil stemming from crises like the Russian-Ukraine war, the stakes for democracies around the world are high.   Hence, this year's Annual Lecture hosted...

AI-powered misinformation, extreme weather events and phone addiction: check out the ESMH selection of 20 science and tech news published last weeks on the web.

Entomologist Arnold van Huis (Wageningen University, the Netherlands) is an advocate of entomophagy - the human consumption of insects. In this interview Professor Van Huis explains why farming and consuming insects might be good for humans and our planet, and the outlook for a burgeoning insect industry....