UNI NOVA – Research Magazine of the University of Basel

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  Dossier

  Can you lead a happy life with cancer?

  Text: Jan Müller / A serious illness changes the way a person looks at their life, how they can and want to shape its course. Philosopher Jan Müller ponders how this new reality influences various areas of life.

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  Dossier

  Right on track for practical applications.

  Text: Angelika Jacobs / An idea in the lab might someday help to improve cancer treatment. Five spin-offs from the University of Basel with the aim of developing concepts to benefit patients.

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  Opinion

  What should we do to fight plastic pollution, Patricia Holm?

  Text: Patricia Holm / Plastic waste is a global problem. An environmental scientist and an expert in international law on the actions that can be taken by private individuals and by policymakers.

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  Opinion

  What should we do to fight plastic pollution, Anna Petrig?

  Text: Anna Petrig / Plastic waste is a global problem. An environmental scientist and an expert in international law on the actions that can be taken by private individuals and by policymakers.

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  In pictures

  Pictures of time – photo albums in flux.

  Text: Noëmi Kern / For her dissertation, Murielle Cornut is studying the photo album as a cultural technology.

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  Portrait

  Brain researcher with a jazz flute.

  Text: Christoph Dieffenbacher / Philipp Sterzer investigates how our brain works – both in terms of everyday perception and in cases of severe psychosis. But music is his true love.

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  Opinion

  Refuting the myth of neutral technology.

  Text: Bianca Prietl / Artificial intelligence is meant to produce objective truths free of human error. Yet cases of algorithmic discrimination give the lie to this promise time and again. How can we imagine technoscientific futures without holding onto the hope of technological neutrality?

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  Research

  The night sky in a supercomputer.

  Text: Jana Winkler / Looking into space is the same as looking into the universe’s past. Researchers aim to decode some of its biggest mysteries – using the world’s most advanced radio observatory.

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  Research

  Hidden network.

  Text: Noëmi Kern / Unlike in the natural sciences, much of the data in the humanities is only available in analog formats. Digital humanities is changing this and in doing so, opening up new fields of study.