From the time humans began discovering and conquering new continents, they also started transporting animals and plants around the world and releasing them in…
The Sun undergoes a type of seasonal variability with its activity waxing and waning over the course of nearly two years, according to a new study by a team of…
In this year for the first time the University of Stuttgart is presenting its diverse range of pioneering research achievements at the Hannover Fair 2015, the…
Flexible electronic components (e.g. thin film solar cells or bendable light sources and displays based on organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs)) are opening…
The richness of species in an ecosystem is not only a source of joy for nature lovers; it also defines an ecosystem’s functional characteristics and…
Low-frequency alternating magnetic fields such as those generated by overhead power lines are considered a potential health risk because epidemiological…
Digital technologies such as mobile assistance systems, virtual engineering and augmented reality have many benefits for technical inspection. To this end, TÜV…
Especially suitable here are modified diamond-like carbon coatings (DLC), such as, for example, the SICON® coating developed at the Fraunhofer IST, which is a…
Convion C50 SOFC system
Rocks do not loose their memory during Earth history but their true ages might be distorted: even under ultra high-temperature metamorphic conditions exceeding…
In the 1960's, Peltier devices were primarily made from Bismuth-Telluride (Bi2Te3) or Antimony-Telluride (Sb2Te3) alloys and had a peak efficiency (zT) of 1.1,…
University of California, Berkeley seismologists have proven that the Hayward Fault is essentially a branch of the Calaveras Fault that runs east of San Jose,…
An international team has for the first time precisely tracked the surprisingly rapid process by which light rearranges the outermost electrons of a metal…
However, the cooling limit is subjected to the quantum backaction, and ground state cooling is possible only in the resolved sideband limit, which requires the…
Companies come and go for a variety of reasons. Some are bought, some merge with others, and some go out of business completely. There's no shortage of…
Developed by a team of government and university researchers, including physicists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the…