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Why?
Plaques in the brain have long been regarded as the trigger of Alzheimer’s disease – probably wrongly. But what exactly is the cause, then? And where does research stand today?
Issue 2-2018

Topics in this issue

A force of nature with two faces
How the Asian weather phenomenon purifies the air and at the same time distributes pollutants over the earth.
Reading in primordial dust
What a meteorite reveals about the magnetic field in the early solar system.
The secret glow of plants
Instruments of start-up JB Hyperspectral Devices capture it.

A true jewel
JUWELS: start of a new generation of supercomputers
Spellbound by the channels
Christoph Fahlke researches transport processes in cell membranes.
Model kit for atomic nuclei
New computer model calculates exactly how stable a core is.

Inclusion in an emergency
SiME is looking for safe escape routes for people with disabilities.
Mapping the brain
Advances in medicine: from Brodmann’s map to the modern brain atlas

News in brief
Early warning system for blackouts
Genes at work in the brain
Dodder decoded
High-tech gummy bears
100 times faster …
Upright molecule masterpiece
JuSPARC is being expanded
Looking deeply
Energy transition tested

Sections
As we see it
Editorial
What are you researching right now?
2.2 plus
Thumbs up
Research in a tweet

Images: Alex ten Napel, Perfect Lazybones/Shutterstock.com, Forschungszentrum Jülich/Ralf-Uwe Limbach, Forschungszentrum Jülich/Hochschule Düsseldorf, MaLija/Shutterstock.com, Forschungszentrum Jülich/Sascha Kreklau, Illustrationen: SeitenPlan, Brodmann, K. (1909). Vergleichende Lokalisationslehre der Großhirnrinde in ihren Prinzipien dargestellt auf Grund des Zellenbaues. Leipzig, Verlag von Johann Ambrosius Barth.

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