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This morning at 05:45 CEST, the earth trembled beneath the Okhotsk Sea in the Pacific Northwest. The quake, with a magnitude of 8.2, took place at an exceptional depth of 605 kilometers.

Because of the great depth of the earthquake a tsunami is not expected and there should also be no major damage due to shaking.

Professor Frederik Tilmann of the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences: "The epicenter is exceptionally deep, far below the earth's crust in the mantle. Such strong ...

In the focus: Hubble reveals the Ring Nebula’s true shape

The Ring Nebula's distinctive shape makes it a popular illustration for astronomy books. But new observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope of the glowing gas shroud around an old, dying, sun-like star reveal a new twist.

"The nebula is not like a bagel, but rather, it's like a jelly doughnut, because it's filled with material in the middle," said C. Robert O'Dell of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn.

He leads a research team that used Hubble and several ground-based telescopes to obtain the best view yet of ...

In the focus: Going live – immune cell activation in multiple sclerosis

New indicator molecules visualise the activation of auto-aggressive T cells in the body as never before

Biological processes are generally based on events at the molecular and cellular level. To understand what happens in the course of infections, diseases or normal bodily functions, scientists would need to examine individual cells and their activity directly in the tissue.

The development of new microscopes and fluorescent dyes in ...

In the focus: Soft Matter Offers New Ways to Study How Materials Arrange

A fried breakfast food popular in Spain provided the inspiration for the development of doughnut-shaped droplets that may provide scientists with a new approach for studying fundamental issues in physics, mathematics and materials.

The doughnut-shaped droplets, a shape known as toroidal, are formed from two dissimilar liquids using a simple rotating stage and an injection needle. About a millimeter in overall size, the droplets are produced individually, their shapes maintained by a surrounding springy material made of polymers.

Droplets in this toroidal shape made ...

In the focus: Functional films for the displays of the future

Frauhofer FEP will present a novel roll-to-roll manufacturing process for high-barriers and functional films for flexible displays at the SID DisplayWeek 2013 in Vancouver – the International showcase for the Display Industry.

Displays that are flexible and paper thin at the same time?! What might still seem like science fiction will be a major topic at the SID Display Week 2013 that currently takes place in Vancouver in Canada.

High manufacturing cost and a short lifetime are still a major obstacle on ...

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13,900 students received a Germany Scholarship in 2012

Institutions of higher education spent nearly Euro 44 billion in 2011

Plastic surgery trend has women armed for spring and summer

9% less first-year students of engineering sciences in 2012

Number of persons qualified to enter higher education slightly down in 2012

11 billion euros for non-university research in 2011

Public expenditure on culture totalled over 9 billion euros in 2009

Number of students in Germany at record high

Number of first-semester students down 5% in academic year 2012

Statistical analysis projects future temperatures in North America

One-quarter of working-age adults had a gap in health-care coverage in 2011

More baby boomers facing old age alone

New stats: Chin surgery skyrockets among women, men, all age groups

More poor kids in more poor places, Carsey Institute finds

No more tasty surprises: RUB mathematicians develop new statistical method

1 million more children living in poverty since 2009, new census data released today shows

New health insurance survey: 9 million adults joined ranks of uninsured due to job loss in 2010

Preterm Birth Rate Drops Three Percent

Statistic Phenomenon on the Pitch: Often Two Players with the Same Birthday at the World Cup

American food: Still the best deal in the world

Two new studies reveal benefits of laparoscopic surgery for uterine cancer

Sometimes no treatment is the right option for low-risk prostate cancer

UCLA researches heart disease-glucose connection

Working memory retains visual details despite distractions

Forty-seven million Americans are victims of workplace aggression

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In the focus: Strong earthquake at exceptional depth

In the focus: Hubble reveals the Ring Nebula’s true shape

In the focus: Going live – immune cell activation in multiple sclerosis

In the focus: Soft Matter Offers New Ways to Study How Materials Arrange

In the focus: Functional films for the displays of the future

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