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Can artificial intelligence develop consciousness? How could this work at all, and what would it mean for us? In 12 episodes, a new KIT podcast systematically explores these questions in discussions with experts.

A career in data sciences promises interesting professional paths. The first Virtual Helmholtz Data Science Career Day provided information about career steps for future Data Scientists. Here you can watch the exciting keynotes and panel discussions again.

Our cities are growing. Therefore, urban planning must take into account the needs of more and more people. The DLR Digital Atlas project is creating a unique database that can be used to better develop urban planning and energy supply.

How can diseased tumor tissue be destroyed in a targeted manner while preserving the healthy tissue immediately surrounding it? Alexandra Walter uses data science and artificial intelligence to make radiation therapy even more precise.

Mario Rüttgers uses Data Science methods to reveal the small hurricanes that occur in the nose when we inhale. He wants to help make future nose surgery more successful - and thus make it easier for patients to breathe.

Christian Gerloff completed his degree in electrical engineering. Now, he’s tracking down signals from one of the most mysterious and complex systems in existence. As a doctoral candidate at the HDS-LEE graduate school, Gerloff conducts research that unravels more hidden secrets of the human brain—thanks to data science methods.

The modern age's passion for collecting has a name: Big Data. Science must follow certain rules and use the right infrastructure to unearth the treasure trove of data. Two examples from Forschungszentrum Jülich show how it's done.

Connections we make in our social networks are a good example of complex networks - with patterns that are neither purely arbitrary nor purely regular. At Ben Gurion University you can help Rami Puzis and his team to research them.

A better understanding of climate variability helps to calculate how high global warming could be in the coming decades. Andrew Dolman and his team at the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) rely on complex data material from sea and ice.

When stars explode, particles are hurled into space, which then rain down on Earth as neutrons. Scientists use this process to measure soil moisture. One of these scientists is Leipzig physicist Martin Schrön. He wants to use this to help farmers and environmentalists improve their response to climate change.

The ocean is changing at an alarming rate and this may affect marine life in ways that scientists don’t fully understand yet. That’s why Willi Rath and the Ocean Dynamics team at GEOMAR are trying to harness the increasing amounts of data on marine organisms that are being generated.

To spot fires and predict droughts, satellites need to communicate efficiently with Earth – and data science algorithms can help. Olga Kondrateva, doctoral researcher at the Helmholtz Einstein International Berlin School in Data Science (HEIBRiDS), is programming the satellites to pick and choose what data is worth transmitting.

Climate simulations for the future: In HIDA's Virtual Climate Challenge, more than 30 scientists tried to figure out how volcanic and solar activities of the past are reflected in today's climate models.

Gregor Pfalz has the air of a young researcher who is burning to get to the bottom of things. Which fits perfectly, because his work as a doctoral candidate at the HEIBRiDS Data Science School in Berlin involves analyzing data from sediment collected from Arctic lakes, with the aim of making predictions about the climate of the future. And how does this work? It takes a lot of patience and a merging of two disciplines - geology and computer science.

Helmholtz researchers have used single-cell analytics to find a potential molecular explanation as to why some people are at greater risk of being more severely affected by COVID-19.

Could the surface temperature in the tropical Atlantic be one of the causes of droughts in the Mediterranean region? With the help of machine learning, Eduardo Zorita at the Helmholtz Centre for Materials and Coastal Research in Geesthacht (HZG) is trying to find out which factors have an impact on the climate.

Armed with social media data and satellite images, Dr. Xiaoxiang Zhu and her team at the German Aerospace Center are creating global maps of urban areas that can be used to manage urbanization in the era of climate change.

In order to be better prepared for extreme weather events in the future, scientists at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research are trying to map the laws of nature using algorithms.

Maria-Theresia Verwega is a mathematician with all her heart and she loves the sea. That's why she decided to write her PhD at MarDATA - a new, interdisciplinary research school of the Helmholtz Association where marine data scientists are trained.

With the help of deep learning methods, the "Big Data Analytics" working group is creating a model of the human brain. The results should also be of use to other research areas