Learn how situational assessments are created and how drone monitoring is used to record and analyze the condition of dikes, forests, and critical infrastructure.
Time
18:00 - 24:00 o'clock
Gebiet
Stadtzentrum
Organizer
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt – DLR-Institut für Datenwissenschaften
Shake, glow, and be amazed! With UV light, blue liquid, and steaming ice, nature turns into a magical land. Become a researcher yourself—because curiosity is the magic of science!
Every body emits thermal radiation, which we make visible using an infrared camera. This helps answer questions such as: “Am I a ‘cold nose’ or a ‘warm nose’?” or “Where can a mouse hide from a snake?”
Which photos are real, and which are AI-generated? Submit your guess, get advice—from a person or a machine—and make a new decision. With live results: How is the audience doing, and whose advice carries more weight?
Have you always wanted to know how a particle accelerator works? Or how to make elementary particles visible and store them? Experience a variety of hands-on physics experiments in the fields of optics and particle physics.
Time
18:00 - 24:00 o'clock
Gebiet
Stadtzentrum
Organizer
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena,Institut für Optik und Quantenelektronik (IOQ)andHelmholtz-Institut Jena
In their natural environment, all insects—including pests that attack our crops—have natural predators. We take advantage of this for biological pest control in our greenhouse and largely avoid using insecticides.
Become a Gene Code Cracker! Decode the genetic code of cancer cells, discover how gene mutations reveal the right treatment, and learn in a fun way how personalized cancer medicine can change lives today.
The enchanted forest, the big bad wolf, the wicked witch, the gingerbread house—we all have images from fairy tales in our minds. But where do these ideas come from? And what happens when we retell them?