At DESY's X-ray source PETRA III, scientists have investigated an intriguing form of self-assembly in liquid crystals: When the liquid crystals are filled into…
Currently, department stores still mostly stock mass-produced goods. But in the future, products will become increasingly customized. In the long term, certain…
The bacterium Pseudomonas protegens can kill soil-dwelling plant pathogens, including fungi and bacteria that attack the roots of important crops such as…
A multi-institution team of scientists led by Texas A&M University chemist Sarbajit Banerjee has discovered an exceptional metal-oxide magnesium battery…
Part of the charm of vintage cars is that they stopped making them long ago, so it is special when you do see one out on the roads. If something breaks or…
Scientists have for the first time discovered a mechanism that limits the number of “cellular janitors” in the nervous system, leading to increased risk for…
A sunspot usually consists of a circular dark core (the umbra) with a vertical magnetic field and radially-elongated fine threads (the penumbra) with a…
Today, the individual processing of components or the optimization of manufacturing during the production process are often not feasible or only in part at…
As a result of increasingly innovative processes in additive manufacturing, individualized patient-specific medical products such as hip prostheses are…
“Almost everything we do, from having dinner to surfing the Internet, uses resources in some way, but the connections between resource use and human well-being…
More than a billion people worldwide suffer from high blood pressure (hypertension). Prolonged hypertension damages blood vessels, which can result in damage…
Whenever Industrie 4.0 is mentioned, the general assumption is that processing and evaluating large volumes of data are part of the equation. Although modern…
A real milk allergy occurs in about three to five percent of European children and more rarely in adults. The disease is different from lactose intolerance, in…
“There is still a conceptual gap between teaching science and environmental education,” says Dr. Ulrich Dettweiler, Associate Professor of Education at the…
Ozone is a substance that forms in the stratosphere – the region of the atmosphere between about 10 and 50 km altitude, above the troposphere that we live in….
Alien animal and plant species are gaining ground worldwide. From 2000 until 2005 alone, the number of records of alien species has reached a new high point,…
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