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Life & Chemistry

Sea Anemone’s Feast: Time-Lapse Reveals Abyssal Wonders

New time-lapse photography of the abyssal sea floor shows that this type of anemone can eat animals up to six times its weight and moves around the ocean floor…

Life & Chemistry

New DNA Repair Mechanism Enhances Genetic Stability

The DNA molecule is chemically unstable giving rise to DNA lesions of different nature. That is why DNA damage detection, signaling and repair, collectively…

Life & Chemistry

A 'movie' of ultrafast rotating molecules at a hundred billion per second

Can you imagine how subnano-scale molecules make an ultrafast rotation at a hundred billion per second? Do the ultrafast rotating subnano-scale molecules show…

Life & Chemistry

Woolly Mammoth Genome Analysis Uncovers Arctic Adaptations

The first comprehensive analysis of the woolly mammoth genome reveals extensive genetic changes that allowed mammoths to adapt to life in the arctic. Mammoth…

Earth Sciences

Cement Innovation: Effective Use of Carbon Dioxide Storage

04.07.2015: Today the final phase of the project on the geological storage of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide at Ketzin/Havel started with the abandonment of…

Corporate News

Siemens Wins Order for Offshore Wind Plant in Great Britain

Siemens has received a further order for an offshore wind power plant located in Great Britain: Siemens is to supply, erect and commission 91 of its 6MW direct…

Health & Medicine

New Insights on Developing a Universal Flu Vaccine

Flu vaccines can be something of a shot in the dark. Not only must they be given yearly, there's no guarantee the strains against which they protect will be…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

'Déjà vu all over again:' Research shows 'mulch fungus' causes turfgrass disease

The disease, based on the symptoms expressed on finely mown turf, has been referred to as thatch collapse. It turns out that the fungus creating the condition…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Siemens Unveils Compact Time Converter for Harsh Conditions

Siemens has expanded its portfolio of rugged network components with the Ruggedcom RMC8388 – a cost effective compact time converter designed to operate in…

Physics & Astronomy

Active pits on Rosetta’s comet

Cavities measuring up to a few hundred meters in diameter can be found under the surface of Rosetta’s comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. They can be instable and…

Life & Chemistry

Mapping Chemical Markers: A New Technique for Proteins

The new method, described on July 2, 2015 in the journal Cell, allows researchers to map critical chemical tags—called phosphates—that bond to amino acids (the…

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Materials Sciences

World’s Highest Magnetic Field* (1,020MHz) NMR developed

The research team of Japan's National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), RIKEN, Kobe Steel and JEOL RESONANCE successfully developed the NMR system…

Studies and Analyses

Seahorse Tails Inspire Next-Gen Robotics Innovation

The research centers on the curious shape of seahorse tails and was led by Clemson University's Michael M. Porter, an assistant professor of mechanical…

Environmental Conservation

The oceans can’t take any more

Our oceans need an immediate and substantial reduction of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. If that doesn’t happen, we could see far-reaching and largely…

Materials Sciences

Diamond Advances Organic Substance Creation from Sunlight

To date only nature has been able to create organic substances from sunlight and the gas carbon dioxide, which is available in abundance in the Earth’s…

Statistics

Academic Staff Growth: 3% Increase in Higher Education

Based on provisional figures, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that this was an increase of 2.8% from 2013.

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