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Rehabilitating the prime suspect responsible for climate change: More and more technological innovations aim to harness CO2 as a sustainable source of carbon.

Hendrik Wüst, minister-president of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, is viewed as a potential candidate for chancellor. In this interview, the 48-year-old calls for reliable prospects for science, research, and industry.

Heavy objects are a burden on the environment. Making heavy things lighter saves energy, conserves resources, promotes sustainability while improving the function and safety of products at the same time. Fraunhofer is developing a variety of innovative approaches.

There’s a 60 billion euro gap in his budget, he’s had to put an emergency stop to the debt brake and a new era is looming in the world of interest rates: In this interview, German finance minister Christian Lindner makes a case for investing in the future. As he puts it, the very fact that so much has been left undone is what “gives us such wide scope for shaping the future.”

Toxic PFAS are endangering our water. Now there are plans to ban them in Europe. This presents the industrial sector with major problems because these “forever chemicals” are essential to many products and processes.

Plastic has gone from being a valuable material to a trash problem. But as we can’t go without it, researchers are pulling out all the stops to make this multi-purpose material more sustainable.

The EU wants to establish its own satellite network by 2027, with the aim of increasing the resilience of the European communications infrastructure and gaining technological sovereignty in space. Achieving this will require novel solutions.

Smart facades create comfortable temperatures: Facades protect buildings from the weather and are pleasing to the eye – but they can also offer a lot more. As temperatures rise across the globe, the outer walls of buildings have their work cut out for them.

When it comes to food, we are used to safety and constant availability. But crises and empty shelves have shown we can’t take that as a given. Fraunhofer researchers are working to achieve greater resilience.

Interview with Friedrich Merz. As CDU chair and opposition leader, he argues for greater openness to technology. As an amateur pilot, he remains skeptical of the idea of flying a hydrogen-fueled plane.