Media & Press

MPIWG in the Media

Media & Press

Deputy Head, Communications Team

Stephanie Hood

+49 30 22667 315

shood@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science features often in the national and global media. This page highlights appearances of our researchers and research in national and global news. Visit also the Mediathek for video and audio recordings.

November 2024

  • The Historical Significance of Games: From Ancient Board Games to the Digital Future

    Berliner Antike-Kolleg

    Jacob Schmidt-Madsen interviewed for Berliner Antike-Kolleg about his research on game systems in Asia

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October 2024

  • Machine-learning analysis tracks the evolution of 16th-century European astronomical thought

    Phys.org

    BIFOLD and MPIWG featured in Phys.org on using AI to analyze historic networks in astronomy

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  • Using AI, historians track how astronomy ideas spread in the 16th century

    Science News

    Matteo Valleriani interviewed by Science News on the use of AI for historians of science

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  • Scientists Must Unite in Challenging Times

    Mirage News

    Mirage News on 50 years of cooperation between Max Planck Society and Chinese Academy of Sciences

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  • Astronomie in der frühen Neuzeit: KI wertet alte Schriften aus

    Deutschlandfunk

    Matteo Valleriani interviewed in Deutschlandfunk on machine learning and astronomy tables

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  • Dreitägiges Symposium: Experten besuchen Haigerlocher Atomkeller

    Schwarzwälder Bote

    Schwarzwälder Bote reports on lecture by Alexander Blum on Werner Heisenberg 

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September 2024

  • When Physicists Strove for Peace: Past Lessons for Our Uncertain Times

    Nature

    Roberto Lalli and Jaume Navarro in Nature article reflecting on science and peace

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August 2024

  • Feiner gehts nicht

    Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

    Lisa Onaga quoted in FAZ article on Amami Ōshima tsumugi silk

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  • Can China’s Centralised Reform Strategy Transform Research and Innovation?

    ThinkChina

    Visiting Scholar Erik Baark in ThinkChina on China's centralised reform strategy

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  • Universities Turn to Private Intelligence to Assess China Risk

    Science Business

    Andrea Braun Střelcová quoted in Science Business article on research cooperation with China

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