Awards Funding
Training Quantum Computers
Physicists Win Prestigious IBM Award. Quantum challenge completed: A team of five, headed by quantum physicist Professor Ronny Thomale of the Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat based at two universities in…
Ring-sheared drop experiment on ISS expanded
New NSF grant supports ongoing research into proteins. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) researchers Amir Hirsa, professor of mechanical, aerospace, and nuclear engineering, and Patrick Underhill, professor of chemical and biological…
The mechanics of mitosis to combat cancer
Scott Forth receives $1.6 million grant to explore how chromosomes are segregated during cell division. It is a scary fact that one in two women and one in three men…
Optimized magnets for the energy transition
European Innovation Council funds Europe-wide project led by TU Darmstadt. Magnets are key materials for the energy transition. However, they often consist of critical raw materials. Scientists led by TU…
How microbes make ‘nanowires’ to exhale electrons
The rising temperatures threatening life on our planet are caused in part by microbes that produce 50% of atmospheric methane, a gas 30 times more potent than CO2 at trapping…
EU funding for research on superalloys
Dr. Nataliya Yadzhak from Lviv/Ukraine, postdoctoral fellow and research associate for the Chair for Metals and Alloys at the University of Bayreuth, has been awarded a fellowship from the EU…