8/20/10
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics succeed in recording single-atom resolved images of a highly correlated quantum gas. Ultracold atoms in optical lattices have evolved in the last years into an interdisciplinary tool for many-body solid state and quantum physics. But so ...
8/20/10
Parents and researchers have long puzzled over the question of why children who grow up in the countryside suffer from fewer allergies, and less frequently from asthma. The previous assumption was that, in some way, the immune system needs the dirt and dust in the country to train itself up. As ...
8/19/10
In 1992, Klaus-Dietrich Flade became the fifth German to fly to space. His mission, Mir '92, lasted for seven days. Alongside scientific experiments, it also involved taking the mouse that starred in the German television programme 'Sendung mit der Maus' (literally, 'The Programme with the ...
8/19/10
Scientists at JGU have devised a tool which allows fully reversible binding of metal oxides to inorganic nanotubes Inorganic chalcogenide (WS2) nanotubes have shown revolutionary chemical and physical properties that offer a broad range of applications. They are ultra-strong impact-resistant ...
8/19/10
How can the immune system be made more potent against cancer? To solve this crucial question, a team of researchers has dedicated ten years of research to develop a new method. The researchers modified T cell receptors (TCRs), so that they would no longer ignore cancer cells, but instead track ...
8/19/10
An international team of researchers has succeeded in producing nanocrystals that build conductive two-dimensional nanostructures trough self-organisation Nanocrystals are tiny particles that are not greater than 100 nanometres. Due to their crystalline structure, nanocrystals have a special ...
8/18/10
The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) is developing the Antares H3 in cooperation with Lange Research Aircraft GmbH. The Antares H3 is a higher-performance successor of the Antares DLR-H2, the world's first piloted aircraft capable of performing a complete ...
8/18/10
Wind turbines that work without a gearbox can make offshore wind power facilities even more reliable. Siemens has now begun selling a three-megawatt turbine with a rotor diameter of 101 meters that requires only half the parts of a conventional geared wind turbine. This simpler design reduces ...
8/18/10
Analysis of alterations in the genetic material of ependymomas, a relatively common type of brain tumor, enables physicians to predict disease progression more precisely. A research group headed by Dr. Stefan Pfister of the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) ...
8/18/10
In China, Siemens has put an “electricity highway” into operation that works with a voltage of 800 kilovolts (kV). The high-voltage direct-current transmission (HVDC) system stretches over nearly 1,500 kilometers — that’s equivalent to the distance from the south of Germany to the southern tip ...
