Quality of Life

Karl Brauner, PhD, World Trade Organization, and Professor Daniel Hamilton, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D. C., USA, talk about the right approach to meet the challenges for international trade.

Teressa Szelest, President, Market and Business Development North America for BASF Corporation, explains why trade creates wealth and leads to better products and lower prices.

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology (IDMT) in Oldenburg, Germany, have developed a software that significantly improves speech intelligibility.

The clear, cubist forms of the gleaming white Fundació Joan Miró building soar into the blue skies over Barcelona. However, the quality of the concrete, compounded by its exposure to the salty sea climate, caused the building to age rapidly.

Like a castle adorned with battlements, towers, columns and little round arches, the JN Petit Institute with its library and reading room is a jewel in the historical center of Mumbai.

It is the most expensive renovation of a public building ever: It cost $2.15 billion to update the U.N. headquarters in New York.

In January 2016 the world’s longest bus line, the Transoceánica, started offering service between Rio de Janeiro and Lima. It takes 102 hours to travel the 6,200 kilometer route between the two cities.

Removing ozone from the cabin air makes air travel more comfortable.

Fake goods are often hard to tell apart from the genuine article. Companies come up with innovative ways to keep one step ahead of the counterfeiters.

Michael Walsh, Director at U. S. Customs and Border Protection, wants to stop counterfeits entering the country. He describes some of the main challenges.

The parasites from the Plasmodium genus that cause malaria, have developed resistance to most current medicines. A 19th century dyestuff, methylene blue, could provide an answer.

Researchers at the pioneering start up Xeros in the United Kingdom have developed a revolutionary solution addressing saving potential as well as quality improvements in laundry.

Among other things, SAP founder Dietmar Hopp supports educational projects, including the “Little Scientists’ House.”

Foams provide a wide variety of products, from mattresses to car bodies and chocolate mousse, with special properties.

Every movement they make circulates and cleans the air.

When sprayed onto clothing or a bicycle, the safety spray LifePain is reflective in the glare of car headlights.

Without innovation, progress is impossible. What is the essence of innovation and how can it be fostered?

3D printing is evolving rapidly. Innovative applications around the world appear almost every day.

The XperYenZ™ sensor system is the first that, in real time, can measure the distance to an object using the light reflected by it.

Increasingly small structures require the purest chemicals. How nanoelectronics is changing our everyday life.

Even the tiniest specks of particulate matter can ruin entire production runs: Chemicals for semiconductor electronics manufacturing are tested for purity in BASF’s cleanroom lab.

Inventor and industrial designer Sir James Dyson wants to inspire the next generation of engineers with his foundation.

Coffee at the touch of a button is convenient. However, coffee capsules leads to growing waste piles. This is where ecovio^®, BASF’s biobased plastic, is set to provide relief.

In the future, light headsets will offer a treatment for winter blues when the days get shorter and duller.

Japanese singer Ai Kawashima is building 100 schools, giving children access to education.

Hövding, an airbag for cyclists offers a new way of protection against head injuries.

With the adidas Boost^TM  running shoe, the impact energy of jogging is no longer wasted - it is sent back to the runner.

In 1876, Heinrich Caro discovered the dye, methylene blue. Today, Claude Wischik wants to use it to combat Alzheimer’s.

The electric light “GravityLight“ uses gravity to generate light. It has been invented for developing countries.

Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) have the potential to revolutionize the lighting market.

With a new blue dye BASF wants to create an innovation on the lighting market.

Rogier van der Heide, Philips Vice President and Chief Design Officer, talks about fascinating new organic lighting concepts and his personal visions for the future.

Companies that want to attract and retain committed and motivated employees have to put training and development center stage.

Can tiny nanoparticles meet the high expectations that are being placed on them? A debate between two experts.

Dr. Wolfgang Hapke, President Human Resources at BASF, talks about trends in HR.

Prof. Dr. Ursula M. Staudinger from Columbia University, New York, about life-long learning and the challenges for companies.  

Entrepreneur Benny Landa has set up a fund to overcome the differences in Israeli society through education.

Malaria cases and deaths are falling. We examine the reasons for this and find out how the fight against malaria is succeeding.  

U.N. Special Advisor Jeffrey Sachs explains why we can win the fight, and the challenges that lie ahead.  

We look at what happened when one malaria-afflicted community received insecticide-treated bed nets.  

We examine the science behind the innovations from BASF that are helping combat malaria.

Will existing fundings towards malaria control be sufficient to reach the UN’s Millennium Development Goal?  

An infographic shows how malaria infects humans and how the disease spreads.  

Developing an anti-malaria vaccine has proved challenging. After intensive research, recent breakthroughs are inspiring new hope.  

Humble discarded plastic bottles will bring light to the slums in Manila.  

Microscratches, from using a car wash, for example, could soon be a thing of the past, thanks to BASF’s new clearcoat iGloss^®.

How does a shirt become non-iron?
A short explanation of an everyday solution.