It is the second most-common visual function test that eye doctors use: Perimetry. Most often used to diagnose and treat patients with glaucoma, but also in neurological diseases and retinal disorders. Dr. Mike Patella and Professor Anders Heijl teamed up to develop the ZEISS’s Humphrey perimeter 35 years ago. Read on for an interview about ophthalmology, the rapid advancement of this technology and how a collaboration blossomed into a friendship.

Professors Heinz-Wilhelm Hübers and Herbert Jahn are two of the scientists who have shaped, and continue to shape, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) to this day. The following is based on a discussion that took place in Berlin about taking measurements and photographs in outer space, as well as a passion for development and the significance of the first Moon landing on 20 July 1969.

The journey to the Moon was the first big milestone in space travel beyond Earth. The Apollo 11 mission impressed the world, and it got many men and women interested in becoming astronauts. German astronaut Reinhold Ewald and American space shuttle pilot Kent Rominger talked to us about a career that’s actually more of a calling.

On 20 July 2019, it will have been exactly 50 years since the first moon landing. This “giant leap for mankind” thrust space travel into the public consciousness. Astronauts from Apollo 11 and other missions collected minerals and rocks from the Moon that enabled new scientific findings.

American photographer Rory Doyle has been documenting the life of African American cowboys and cowgirls in the Mississippi delta since 2017. With his series “Delta Hill Riders” he won this year’s ZEISS Photography Award themed “Seeing Beyond – The Unexpected”.