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Urbanization’s Impact on Eastern European Agriculture

IAMO and the German Agribusiness Alliance of the Committee on Eastern European Economic Relations (OA) will hold an agricultural policy symposium at the Global…

Environmental Conservation

New Insights on Water Pollution: Testing Methods Fall Short

If a small crustacean does not grow properly, this can affect its reproduction. And if it is no longer able to move normally, it cannot flee from predators or…

Life & Chemistry

New Technique Analyzes Chiral Activity in Molecules

Professor Hyunwoo Kim of the Chemistry Department at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and his research team have developed a…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Siemens Transforms Vienna’s Wastewater Plant Into Green Energy Hub

Siemens will support the city of Vienna in optimizing its main sewage plant in terms of energy. For this purpose, Siemens is supplying the control, measuring,…

Corporate News

Siemens Powers Scotland’s Wind Farms With 126 Megawatts

Siemens has been awarded orders for three onshore wind projects in Scotland, supplying up to 50,000 households in South and North Ayrshire and Lockerbie. The…

Materials Sciences

Defect-Free Molecule-Thick Film Innovation Unveiled

But now a research team, led by engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has found a simple way to fix…

Life & Chemistry

Training Experts in Infectious Disease Tracking: 20 Years Strong

Students and experts from all over the world – the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany, participants too – have been trained in this field of…

Environmental Conservation

Don't forget plankton in climate change models, says study

A new study from the University of Exeter, published in the journal Ecology Letters, found that phytoplankton – microscopic water-borne plants – can rapidly…

Physics & Astronomy

Graphene Microphone: Outperforms Nickel with Ultrasonic Reach

The researchers, based at the University of Belgrade, Serbia, created a vibrating membrane – the part of a condenser microphone which converts the sound to a…

Earth Sciences

Plankton Boom in North Atlantic Signals Carbon Dioxide Rise

A microscopic marine alga is thriving in the North Atlantic to an extent that defies scientific predictions, suggesting swift environmental change as a result…

Life & Chemistry

Increased CO2 Boosts Plankton Growth, Surprising Scientists

Coccolithophores–tiny calcifying plants that are part of the foundation of the marine food web–have been increasing in relative abundance in the North…

Life & Chemistry

New Tick-Borne Bacterium Found in Austrian Foxes

Adnan Hodžić from the Institute of Parasitology at the Vetmeduni Vienna is searching for pathogens transmitted by ticks. He is especially interested in wild…

Materials Sciences

Graphene Breakthrough: New Control Over Electromagnetic Radiation

A collaborative international team consisting of two experimental groups, led by Professor Geoffrey Nash from the University of Exeter and Professor Jérôme…

Materials Sciences

New Iron Oxide Material Offers Unique Electrical, Magnetic Traits

The new form of iron oxide (FeO) is a metallic crystal with virtually no defects, a unique conglomerate of electrical and magnetic characteristics, and atoms…

Life & Chemistry

Molecular Trigger for Cerebral Cavernous Malformation Uncovered

Cerebral Cavernous Malformation (CCM) is caused by mutations in the CCM1, CCM2 or CCM3 genes, and is characterized by vascular lesions that can lead to…

Earth Sciences

Animated Satellite Images Unveil Glacier Flow Insights

The new animations reveal glacier flow and changes over a much longer time period and at a much larger scale than ever before, using the Karakoram as an…

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