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Earth Sciences

NASA’s Aqua Satellite Monitors Tropical Cyclone Blanche

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…

Materials Sciences

New Materials Transform Water Into Future Fuel Solutions

Researchers at Caltech and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have–in just two years–nearly doubled the number of materials known to have…

Physics & Astronomy

Mastering Terahertz Waves: New Innovations Explained

The terahertz waves span frequency ranges between the infrared spectrum (used, for example, for night vision) and gigahertz waves (which find their…

Event News

ICTM Conference: Innovations in Turbine Construction & Data

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…

Trade Fair News

Innovative Sensor Technology Enhances Learning in Schools

Digital technologies found their way into daily life long ago – including school life. Researchers in Kaiserslautern are exploring how the technologies can be…

Life & Chemistry

Launch of project ECO COM'BAT: Sustainable energy storage with high-voltage batteries

Cruising range is one of the greatest challenges for the rapid implementation of electromobility in Europe. Ten partners from industry and research…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights Into Cellular Sorting Processes Unveiled

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….

Machine Engineering

FOSA LabX 330: Roll-to-Roll Coating for Flexible Glass

The Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEP and VON ARDENNE will intensify their cooperation in the field of the…

Trade Fair News

Cebit '17: Saarbrücken Computer Linguists Are Developing An Intelligent System Aid For Air Traffic

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…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Unlocking Forest Diversity: Nature’s Blueprint for Biodiversity

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…

Environmental Conservation

“Traveling” droughts bring new possibilities for prediction

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…

Life & Chemistry

Fruit Flies’ Memory: How Insects Navigate Their World

Insects have a spatial orientation memory that helps them remember the location of their destination if they are briefly deflected from their route….

Life & Chemistry

Exploring Aspergillus Diversity for Industrial Innovations

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…

Materials Sciences

3-D Manufacturing Breakthrough: Creating Bio-Like Materials

Washington State University researchers have developed a unique, 3-D manufacturing method that for the first time rapidly creates and precisely controls a…

Physics & Astronomy

Solar Storms Unleash Surprising Effects Near Earth

Eruptions on the Sun's surface send clouds of electrically charged particles towards Earth, producing solar storms that–among other things–can trigger the…

Earth Sciences

NASA Uses GPM Satellite to Study Spring Weather Patterns

Record breaking warm temperatures this winter have caused plants to bloom early in the eastern United States. Unfortunately this has also resulted in the…

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