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Earth Sciences

Transpolar Drift Falters: Arctic Sea Ice Melting Early

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…

Health & Medicine

Unicycling Boosts Brain Health: Gray and White Matter Changes

“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…

Materials Sciences

Discovering Truffle Beech: Nature’s Hidden Innovation

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…

Life & Chemistry

Brightly Coloured Giant Stick Insects Discovered in Madagascar

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…

Awards Funding

Enhancing Digital Process Optimization in Auto Body Production

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…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Digitalising Electricity Grids for Sustainable Energy Solutions

Within the framework of the funding initiative ‘Research for an environmentally sound, reliable and affordable energy supply’ of the Federal Ministry for…

Environmental Conservation

Habitat Loss Doubles Impact on Species Richness, Study Finds

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…

Power and Electrical Engineering

OU Engineers Uncover Water’s Key Role in Renewable Fuel Production

“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…

Information Technology

Autonomous driving: Making road tests much easier – A drive-in movie for the vehicle radar

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…

Information Technology

AI-Powered Detection of Power Supply Grid Disturbances

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…

Trade Fair News

Hannover Messe 2019: Exploring 3D-Printed Concrete Innovations

Traditionally, concrete component manufacturing is arduous and design possibilities are limited by the formwork. Should infrastructural elements require…

Physics & Astronomy

Quantum Magnetometers: Enhancing Industrial Magnetic Field Detection

The lighthouse project QMag enables the use of single electrons to detect smallest magnetic fields. This allows to use magnetometers in industry, for example…

Life & Chemistry

Decoding Protein Assignment in Cellular Transport Vesicles

Heidelberg researchers comprehensively identify the composition of transport vesicles for the first time

Physics & Astronomy

Physics: Behaviour of ‘trapped’ electrons in a one-dimensional world observed in the lab

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…

Materials Sciences

Truck tires with less abrasion – Synthetic rubber outperforms natural rubber

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…

Trade Fair News

Fraunhofer ISE Unveils Lightweight Fuel Cell Tech at Hannover

LiteFCBike: Lightweight Fuel Cell System replaces Battery

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