Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities declares agricultural genetic engineering harmless

When it comes to big money, manners get rough. Using this insight, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities ied a press release at the end of June on the current controversy over agricultural genetic engineering. The epithet “green” pushes the agricultural field of genetic engineering into the dangerously innocent. And so the academy titles its declaration “For freedom of research in genetic engineering, especially in so-called green genetic engineering”. The concise text calls for the removal of all barriers to the crude application of genetic engineering in the field and presents as a justification a completely free reading of the current state of knowledge about the dangers of genetic engineering in agriculture.

The timing is not accidental, because in these summer months the ministry wants to decide whether the coarse cultivation of genetically manipulated seeds should be released or continue to be regulated, possibly even more strongly than before. In the fall, according to Minister Horst Seehofer, the new genetic engineering law will be introduced.

The "Dark matter" the cosmologist begins to lighten up. "Weak Gravitational Lensing" should help to see what is invisible so far

"Do you know how many stars are standing ..?" The catalogs fill books. Amateur astronomers spend hours upon hours trying not to get lost in the sheer uberfulle. If you want to experience the splendor of the evening sky in a dream, you need a place far away from civilization. Very small one feels then. And now come the astrophysicists J.P.Easterners and P.Steinhardt and report in Science:

"The light-emitting components of the universe are a very, if not frighteningly, modest part of what makes up the universe. 0.4 percent of total energy is stars or luminous gases. Everything else is dark. Of the dark 3.7 percent are identified: cold gases and haze, neutrinos and black holes.