When venom from animals such as spiders, snakes or cone snails is injected via a bite or harpoon, the cocktail of toxins delivered to its victim tends to cause…
“Tit for tat!” – If a boss acts unfairly in his professional life, he frequently loses the loyalty of his employee. Moreover, if a boss chews out a subordinate…
GFZ German Research Centre begins exploratory drilling on the TU Berlin campus.
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Electrons can extend our view of microscopic objects well beyond what's possible with visible light–all the way to the atomic scale. A popular method in…
Two special days in the programme mark the distinctive highlights during the DATE week: Automotive Systems and Secure Systems. Each of the Special Days will…
“When sea levels rise, damage costs rise even faster, our analyses show,” explains Markus Boettle, lead author of the study published in the journal Natural…
The composition of species communities can change considerably over time, often due to human influences. Even though these changes have led to the decline of…
Why do we get fat and why is it so difficult for so many people to keep off excess weight? Researchers in the Reseach Unit Neurobiology of Diabetes led by Dr….
Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) have for the first time experimentally demonstrated that copper nanophotonic components…
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart are now moving robots that are barely perceptible to the human eye in a similar…
A study published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports a new parallel-computing approach based on a combination of…
Irregular fiery red rings move across the computer screen. They enlarge, merge together, dissipate, form offspring – a constant cycle of emergence and decay….
In future, graphene could be used as an extremely thin coating, resulting in almost zero energy loss between mechanical parts. This is based on the…
In a new paper, researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Oxford University describe a new, more general law for predicting the wavelength of…
“I've pretty much given up listening to music and being able to enjoy it,” says Prudence Garcia-Renart, a musician who gave up playing the piano a few years…