The dramatic loss of ice in the Arctic is influencing sea-ice transport across the Arctic Ocean. As experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre…
“Things really start rolling when you learn to ride a unicycle – in your brain as well”, says Bernhard Weber. Riding a unicycle is probably one of the greatest…
Sometimes there is true beauty to be discovered in very unusual places. Like Phoenix from the ashes, the coveted truffle beech is made from rotting wood on the…
Achrioptera manga is a real gem among the stick insects – it is huge and has brightly coloured males. The most important survival rule for stick insects is to…
The digitization of production is currently one of the most important fields of action in the area of auto body production and its related technologies, so…
Within the framework of the funding initiative ‘Research for an environmentally sound, reliable and affordable energy supply’ of the Federal Ministry for…
For their study, scientists from the iDiv research centre, the Uni Halle and the WasserCluster Lunz research centre in Austria used long-term data on the…
“Energy and water are interconnected in the production of renewable fuels. On the one hand, energy is needed to extract, purify and distribute water. On the…
The car of tomorrow will drive itself. Passengers will move down the road as if being driven by a private chauffeur while enjoying conversation, reading a…
The way power is generated is in transition: Whereas, before, all our power came from big power plants, these days it comes from a range of distributed sources…
Traditionally, concrete component manufacturing is arduous and design possibilities are limited by the formwork. Should infrastructural elements require…
The lighthouse project QMag enables the use of single electrons to detect smallest magnetic fields. This allows to use magnetometers in industry, for example…
Heidelberg researchers comprehensively identify the composition of transport vesicles for the first time
A team of physicists at the University of Cologne has, for the first time, seen a particularly exotic behaviour of electrons on an atomic scale. Electrons…
Truck tires have to put up with a lot: As a result of the heavy loads they carry and the long distances they travel every day, they are subject to heavy wear…
LiteFCBike: Lightweight Fuel Cell System replaces Battery