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The ‘Science Express,’ an innovative mobile exhibition showcasing cutting-edge German technology, has raised interest as far afield as India and China.How will we feed nine billion people in the future? Can we ever have a disease-free world? Can robots play football?
These and many others are the questions posed and answered on the "Science Express" -- an innovative mobile exhibition showcasing cutting-edge German technology that has raised interest as far afield as India and China.
The exhibition, which is set to visit 60 German cities by November 2009, is staged on a specially-modified 12-carriage train with each car dealing with a different aspect of science, from cosmology to particle physics and evolution.
When the train rolled into platform two at Berlin's futuristic Hauptbahnhof (central station), people were queuing up to visit the free displays.
Peter Steiner of the Max Planck Society, which runs the train along with some of Germany's leading companies such as Siemens and Volkswagen, was delighted with the public response to the project, which was officially opened by Chancellor Angela Merkel on April 24.
"It's only our first day and we have already had over 2,000 visitors with 400 or 500 children," he said.
The institute aims to have 250,000 visitors across Germany, he said, adding: "but at this rate, we will easily beat that."
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