UNI NOVA – Research Magazine of the University of Basel

Fungi, plastics and sustainability

Oliver Klaffke / Researchers at the University of Basel are investigating how fungi and bacteria decompose wood. This basic research is facilitating the production of new materials – and might also provide clues about processes that maintain human health.

“Some fundamental uncertainties remain”.

Interview: Matthias Geering and Thomas Pfluger / UNI NOVA spoke to Frank Krysiak about sustainability research and its importance to Swiss politics.

The spirit is willing, but the urge to consume is stronger

Oliver Klaffke / “Promoting sustainability is not about preaching self-denial.”

Swiss electricity flows before and after energy transition

Public opinion and climate change

When is a person dead, Andreas Brenner?

When is a person dead, Stephan Marsch?

Microfactories in the body

Tim Schröder / Can you imagine having a tiny factory under your skin or in your body? A biochemical machinery that produces antibiotics or cancer medication when required?

Few regrets in the face of death

Christoph Dieffenbacher / People who take time to think about death do not regret as much in their lives as one might imagine. One reason for this could be that we do not, when we come to contemplate our mortality, wish to endanger our self-esteem and so we somehow reinterpret the past.