1/16/12
European study reveals for the first time impacts on a large scale Montpellier / London/ Halle/Saale. Birds and butterflies are obviously unable to keep up with climate change. Temperatures have risen faster in the last two decades than both animal groups have been able to adapt. Their northward ...
1/16/12
Funding from European Research Council for Heidelberg developmental biologist Heidelberg developmental biologist Prof. Dr. Joachim Wittbrodt has been awarded a generously endowed ERC Advanced Grant by the European Research Council. Grants from this line of funding are accorded to leading ...
1/16/12
Research team from Heidelberg University and German Cancer Research Center lays foundations for investigation of molecular chaperones Heidelberg molecular biologists have achieved new insights into the synthesis of proteins with a newly developed innovative technique. A team of scientists headed ...
1/16/12
Adapting to changing environmental conditions in the Southern Ocean Paris/ Leipzig. Wandering albatrosses have altered their foraging due to changes in wind fields in the southern hemisphere during the last decades. Since winds have increased in intensity and moved to the south, the flight speed ...
1/16/12
Gold nanoparticles detect tiny acoustic vibrations How noisy is a walking flea? What sorts of sound waves are caused by motile bacteria? Physicists at the Nanosystems Initiative Munich (NIM) have managed for the first time to detect sound waves at such minuscule length scales. Their nanoear is ...
1/13/12
A special group of proteins, the so-called chaperones, helps other proteins to obtain their correct conformation. Until now scientists supposed that hydrolyzing ATP provides the energy for the large conformational changes of chaperone Hsp90. Now a research team from the Nanosystems Initiative ...
1/13/12
Ericsson, RWTH Aachen University, and the company Rovi MainConcept have started a collaborative research and development project called Connected Visual Reality (CoVR). The goal of the project is to substantially enhance the performance of audiovisual online communication and thus make it more ...
1/13/12
Scientists from IBM and the German Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) have built the world's smallest magnetic data storage unit. It uses just twelve atoms per bit, the basic unit of information, and squeezes a whole byte (8 bit) into as few as 96 atoms. A modern hard drive, for ...
1/13/12
The available amount of fossil fuels is limited and their combustion in vehicle motors increases atmospheric CO2 levels. The generation of fuels from biomass as an alternative is on the rise. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, Johannes A. Lercher and his team at the Technische Universitaet ...
1/13/12
Using gravitational microlensing, research team shows exoplanets are virtually everywhere This artists's cartoon view gives an impression of how common planets are around the stars in the Milky Way. The planets, their orbits and their host stars are all vastly magnified compared to their real ...
