Mathematics and Gender Politics II – On the death of the mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani

Despite all the downplaying –US scientists cross a new threshold towards CRISPR babies

Superpower Science – Who or what really shapes our technological future?

Does Artificial Intelligence start wars? –Thoughts on Elon Musk

A touch of Oscar night in the sciences – Commentary on the Nobel Prizes 2017

Immortality – Will science declare victory over death?

“Origin” – Dan Brown’s latest thriller and the limits of naturalism

A European scientist – On the 150th birthday of Marie Curie

50 years after the first heart transplantation–The dawn of a new age in medicine

The Beginning of the Atomic Age – the first controlled nuclear chain reaction 75 years ago