• New World Record in Wireless Data Transmission

5/17/13

Researchers of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics and the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology have achieved the wireless transmission of 40 Gbit/s at 240 GHz over a distance of one kilometer. Their most recent demonstration sets a new world record and ties in seamlessly with ...

• Amazon and Apple fence off their e-book markets

5/17/13

Researchers from Mainz University hand over their recommendation of the EPUB3 standard to Neelie Kroes, EU Commissioner for the Digital Agenda There are no technical or functional reasons for Amazon and Apple to fence off their e-book worlds using proprietary e-book formats. This is the result ...

• The eloquence of the otoliths

5/17/13

Fish fossils that are about 23 million years old give unprecedented insight into the evolutionary history of the gobioid order, one of the most species-rich groups among the modern bony fishes. Researchers led by paleontologist Professor Bettina Reichenbacher from the Division of Paleontology ...

• New research project explores the migration of early modern musicians as Europe's identity-forming factor

5/16/13

Transnational project receives EU funding worth almost EUR 1 million over the next three years Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart spent more than ten years traveling the European continent – a prominent example of the significant mobility and itinerant life that was characteristic of the careers of ...

• Snap shots of one of life's central processes

5/16/13

Human Frontier Science Program provides funding of 900,000 US Dollars in support of international collaboration on photosynthesis. Photosynthetic water-oxidation is one of the central processes of life on Earth but remains incompletely understood. Now, a German-American team of scientists has ...

• Friction in the nano-world

5/16/13

Whether in vehicle transmissions, hip replacements, or tiny sensors for triggering airbags: The respective components must slide against each other with minimum friction to prevent loss of energy and material wear. Investigating the friction behavior of nanosystems, scientists from the ...

• Sulfate aerosols cool climate less than assumed

5/15/13

Life span of cloud-forming sulfate particles in the air is shorter than assumed due to a sulfur dioxide oxidation pathway which has been neglected in climate models so far Sulfur dioxide is as antagonist of greenhouse gases less effective than previously assumed. It forms sulfate aerosol ...

• Self-assured entrepreneurs are more likely to act against their own pro-environmental values

5/15/13

“I care about nature, but ...” Many entrepreneurs claim that they care about sustainability, yet they make decisions that are harmful to the environment. Economic researchers from Germany and the USA have discovered that many bosses do indeed have firm convictions when it comes to the ...

• Electronic Cigarettes - An Uncontrolled Experiment with Consumers

5/15/13

Unlike conventional cigarettes, electronic cigarettes do not produce thousands of toxic and carcinogenic substances. Nevertheless, they are not harmless. They contain, as their main ingredient, a substance that irritates the airways, usually along with toxic, addictive nicotine and some ...

• Cardiomyopathies and epigenetic inheritance

5/14/13

Epigenetic mechanisms, along with gene mutations, have been shown to play important roles in the development of heart diseases. Researchers from Heidelberg have discovered that the methylation of two specific genes has an impact on the development of dilated cardiomyopathy. These epigenetic ...