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Earth Sciences

Greenland Ice Sheet Movement Slows, Study Reveals Key Insights

Researchers derived their results by tracking ice sheet movement through Landsat satellite images taken from 1985 to 2014 across a roughly 3,088-square-mile…

Medical Engineering

Siemens Healthcare Unveils Twin Robotic X-Ray System

Multitom Rax (Robotic Advanced X-ray) now enables a wide variety of examinations in a range of clinical areas to be performed using only a single X-ray system…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Siemens Unveils HB3-100 Switchgear with Vacuum Circuit-Breaker

The switchgear type HB3-100 protects operating equipment such as electrical generators and transformers against overvoltage and short-circuit conditions and…

Architecture & Construction

Visualizing Urban Change: Understanding Germany’s City Dynamics

The Research Institute for Regional and Urban Development (Institut für Landes- und Stadtentwicklungsforschung, ILS) investigates new social processes,…

Medical Engineering

Wearable Technology: Elastic Sensors in Medical Textiles

Elastic sensors integrated in textiles

Social Sciences

Head vs. Gut: How Experience Shapes Our Decision-Making

Whether we make everyday decisions based on our gut or our reason has little to do with what kind of a decision maker we are. Instead, the content of the…

Health & Medicine

New Software Quickly Identifies At-Risk Tissue Post-Stroke

In October of last year, a fully automatic computer program for the detection of brain tumours, which was developed in Bern, caused something of a stir on the…

Life & Chemistry

A biosphere without borders – Call for a global effort to unlock the Earth’s microbiome

 

Environmental Conservation

Global Solar Radiation Rises, But Not in China

In the world as a whole, surface solar radiation has increased since 1990, although in China, it has decreased.

Technology Offerings

New Algorithm Measures Distance Between RFID-Readers and Tags

An algorithm has been developed to determine the distance between an RFID-Reader and a tag involved in the communication. The algorithm can be applied
for existing tags without the need for modification and can be used for passive, semi-passive, and active tags.

Technology Offerings

Fault-Tolerant Actuator System Ensures Unmatched Reliability

The invention concerns an actuator system which allows up to 100% availability. lt comprises a number of redundant actuator sub-units working completely independent which can be replaced during system Operation without reducing system functionality.

Corporate News

Siemens Secures First Offshore Order for 7-MW Wind Turbines

Siemens has received its first order for the new 7MW offshore wind turbine: the company is to supply, install and commission 47 direct drive wind turbines,…

Corporate News

Siemens Develops HVDC Link for Efficient Power Between Ethiopia and Kenya

The order was placed by the Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCO) and the Kenya Electricity Transmission Co. Ltd. (KETRACO).

Corporate News

Siemens Secures Power Island Order for Pennsylvania Gas Plant

Siemens will be supplying the power island for Panda Power Funds' 1,124 megawatt (MW) Hummel Station combined cycle power plant in Pennsylvania. After becoming…

Life & Chemistry

Marine Fungi: New Anti-Cancer Compounds from the Ocean

To date, the ocean is one of our planet's least researched habitats. Researchers suspect that the seas and oceans hold an enormous knowledge potential and are…

Earth Sciences

Nepal Earthquake: Milder Impact Than Expected in 2015

The April 2015 Gorkha earthquake that struck Nepal produced less damage and weaker shaking than might be expected from a magnitude 7.8 quake in the area,…

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