1/19/12
New approach helps to alleviate acute lung injury Acute lung injury results from bacterial infections, sepsis – commonly known as blood poisoning – or to the aspiration of gastric juice. Other noxious agents may also induce or contribute to acute lung injury, and in about 40% of cases the ...
1/18/12
Foundation of the Max Planck Weizmann Center for Integrative Archaeology and Anthropology in Rehovot/Israel A new element is being brought in to the already well-developed and multifaceted cooperation between the Max Planck Society and Israel's Weizmann Institute: on 11 January 2012, Max Planck ...
1/18/12
17.01.2011 - "Energy- and resource-efficient Technology in designing Glass Machinery" and "Innovative Production Technology for Solar Products and Applications" are the titles of two symposia that VDMA Forum Glass Technology organises at this year's glasstec. The glasstec exhibitors may join ...
1/18/12
Reception with over 300 international guests on 19 January in Berlin The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is again inviting numerous guests from academia, politics and business, among them Humboldtians from all five continents, to its annual New Year’s reception on 19 January 2012 in Berlin. ...
1/18/12
In future it should be possible to produce the best anti-malaria drug, artemisinin, more economically and in sufficient volumes for all patients The most effective anti-malaria drug can now be produced inexpensively and in large quantities. This means that it will be possible to provide ...
1/18/12
4000-year-old cuneiform writings from Mesopotamia tell us little about the brewing techniques used at the time Archaeological finds from cuneiform tablets and remnants of different vessels from over 4,000 years ago show that even around the dawn of civilisation, fermented cereal juice was highly ...
1/17/12
The world's most accurate metronome keeps stroke to an incredible 10 quintillionth of a second. The device enables slow-motion pictures from the world of molecules and atoms, scientists from the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) in Hamburg, Germany, and the Massachusetts Institute of ...
1/16/12
A computer model predicts the ability of different maize lines to produce high-yield offspring The parent’s performance has little to do with the child's success - at least in maize. Even weak parent plants can be crossed in a way in which they produce vigorous offspring. But not all plants by ...
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
After a year in service, the German Earth observation satellite TanDEM-X, together with its twin satellite, TerraSAR-X, have completely mapped the entire land surface of Earth for the first time. The data is being used to create the world's first single-source, high-precision, 3D digital ...
