Universe

Graphic: Our solar system with the Sun and eight planets (c)

Our home in space

The Milky Way (c)

Time and space in other dimensions

Far away in space and time © IllustrisTNG Collaboration (detail)

Far away in space and time

Solar Orbiter will pass closer to the Sun than no other space probe before. © ESA/ATG medialab

Solar Orbiter

The world’s first direct image of a black hole © EHT Collaboration

Black hole

The VLT at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is situated at the summit of the Cerro Paranal in the Atacama Desert in Chile. © Babak Tafreshi / ESO Photo

Das Very Large Telescope (VLT)

Enceladus © NASA/JPL-Caltech

Life on Enceladus?

Human History

The journey of Homo sapiens © Damian Patkowski / Unsplash (background); collage: kocmoc

The journey of Homo sapiens

The journey of our genes (c) kocmoc

The journey of our genes

Neanderthal handprint © Hipolito Collado

The Neanderthal in us

Revolution in the Stone Age (map) © kocmoc

Revolution in the Stone Age

Our Brain

The Brain © Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology, Martinsried / Volker Staiger (Detail; edited by kocmoc)

The Brain

Powerful emotions © Collage: kocmoc

Powerful emotions

Sleeping in order to live © Kinga Cichewicz/ Unsplash

Sleeping in order to live

Learning and forgetting © Hannah Olinger/ Unsplash

Learning and forgetting

Language © Christina / WOCinTech stock

Language – unique to humans

The Neumayer Station © 2009 Felix Riess, AWI / CC BY 3.0 DE

The brain and the environment

Anthropocene

Life in the Anthropocene © Mike C. Valdivia /unsplash

Life in the Anthropocene

Arctic ice © Willian Justen de Vasconcellos / unsplash

Our climate in crisis

Multitude of life © ifisch/iStock

Multitude of life

© Christian Pauschert / Adobe Stock

The face of Earth

Artificial Intelligence

Chess colourbox.com

What is AI?

The da Vinci surgical robot: on the left the surgeon is operating in a virtual space, on the right the robotic arms with remote-controlled instruments – shown here in a test on a dummy. © Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart

How did AI come about?

AI in society pixbay.com

AI in society

Go for a walk, learn lots about flowers, grasses and trees, and be a part of a scientific project at the same time. The free app Flora Incognita identifies thousands of plants quickly and simply. © Benedikt Strake, München

Flora Incognita

© Fralac / Creative Commons

Completing the unfinished

Cooperation partners

Goethe-Institut
Max Planck Gesellschaft