Tropical Cyclone Blanche formed on March 5 near Australia's Top End, and made landfall the next day as NASA's Aqua satellite passed overhead gathering images…
Researchers at Caltech and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have–in just two years–nearly doubled the number of materials known to have…
The terahertz waves span frequency ranges between the infrared spectrum (used, for example, for night vision) and gigahertz waves (which find their…
The ICTM Conference has established itself as a networking hub for the international turbomachinery industry. For the fourth time in a row, this biennial event…
Digital technologies found their way into daily life long ago – including school life. Researchers in Kaiserslautern are exploring how the technologies can be…
Cruising range is one of the greatest challenges for the rapid implementation of electromobility in Europe. Ten partners from industry and research…
A plant or an animal cell uses numerous processes to sort and assemble tiny building blocks into larger molecules, to rebuild molecules or to dissolve them….
The Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEP and VON ARDENNE will intensify their cooperation in the field of the…
Air traffic controllers are responsible for keeping aircraft at a safe distance to one other in the air and on runways and airstrips. Their most important tool…
Forests, especially tropical forests, are home to thousands of species of trees—sometimes tens to hundreds of tree species in the same forest—a level of…
Droughts can travel hundreds to thousands of kilometers from where they started, like a slow-moving hurricane. A new study sheds light on how these droughts…
Insects have a spatial orientation memory that helps them remember the location of their destination if they are briefly deflected from their route….
In the world of fungi, Aspergillus is an industrial superstar. Aspergillus niger, for example, has been used for decades to produce citric acid–a compound…
Washington State University researchers have developed a unique, 3-D manufacturing method that for the first time rapidly creates and precisely controls a…
Eruptions on the Sun's surface send clouds of electrically charged particles towards Earth, producing solar storms that–among other things–can trigger the…
Record breaking warm temperatures this winter have caused plants to bloom early in the eastern United States. Unfortunately this has also resulted in the…