Plenty of people have an opinion on whether the precautionary principle is good or bad, but what exactly is it? Risk Bites dives into the precautionary principle, and provides an essential background for understanding its relevance in areas like responsible innovation and risk innovation. RESOURCE
In a spirit level, as a key ring – and of course as a small pointer: we encounter laser pointers quite casually in everyday life. Caution would actually be called for here, wouldn't it? On the sidelines of an event, we were asked whether laser pointers were dangerous. And indeed – they are not toys.
Never shave your legs again? Sounds practical - and with the help of Intense Pulsed Light, IPL for short, it is actually possible to get rid of unwanted body hair, at least for a long time. But is that good for the skin? We were asked this question at an event. And we are happy to show what IPL actu
Learn about the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission to Mars in this video from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Mars does not have a global magnetic field like Earth but does have patches of magnetic fields. Scientists use magnetometers to study the planet's magnetic anomalies.
