Exploring uncharted worlds
Researchers have always ventured into uncharted territory. Their expeditions paved the way for trade and colonisation. They have left behind a legacy that is both influential and dubious, as the current issue of Horizons reveals.
The next step is into the unknown: The new issue of Horizons accompanies researchers on their expeditions to distant and unexplored regions. It follows five brave souls who are currently venturing far into the ice, the jungle or the sea. It also sails around the globe with past adventurers and heroes. It then addresses the responsibility that travelling to foreign territories entails and asks how researchers contributed to colonisation and exploitation in the past and what the social and ecological challenges still are today.
Other highlights include: investigating fingerprints in a crime lab, how paper mills flood the academic world with citations, and an anthropologist who delves into the exotic milieu of banking.
The current issue of Horizons is as diverse as the research itself - and, as always, freely accessible to all.