Interview with Alexander Peterhänsel, media artist, designer and Professor for Digital Media at the University of Applied Sciences Brandenburg focused on machine intelligence and creativity, design computation, ICT ethics and virtual- and augmented realities.   He has been an artist in residence to the...

Computers are already learning how to compose music, write novels and draw like Picasso. But is AI capable of creating art on its own?

Interview with Henrik Junklewitz. He received a diploma in physics in 2009 and a Ph.D in physics in 2014, both from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. He has been a post-doctoral researcher in statistical inference, machine learning and imaging for astrophysics at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität...

Mike Schäfer from the University of Zurich talks about why the pandemic has amplified science journalists’ fatigue, how accelerated science affects the quality of reporting, and how politics can ease the burden.     How has the pandemic affected science journalism?   Mike Schäfer: The pandemic has changed...

NEWSERA: Citizen science (CS) initiatives are changing the paradigm of science communication (SC). Not only the embedded bottom-up methodology takes into account people’s needs, aligning science to society, but empowers citizens to become science communicators. Moreover, launching a citizen science project...

Interview with Rosa Arias, CEO of Science for Change, coordinator for the NEWSERA project, which aims to use citizen science to improve science communication.     How is citizen science developing as a field?   Rosa Arias: I hope it will become bigger and bigger. It's receiving quite a lot of support...

Interview with Dr Cristina Luís, professor in science communication at University of Lisbon. She is part of the NEWSERA project, which aims to use citizen science to improve science communication.     Why are you focussing on citizen science projects for NEWSERA?   Cristina Luís: We will be dealing with...

An ambitious new project aims to develop new ways of communicating about science through the growing army of people volunteering their time to take part in research.