If the police commissioner in TV crime series finds a corpse, the forensic collects DNA traces, secures fingerprints, takes photos and casts shoe prints, tire…
Streaming films and music, scrolling through social media, and using cloud-based storage services are everyday activities now.
The exponential growth in computer processing power seen over the past 60 years may soon come to a halt. Complex systems such as those used in weather…
We've all shared the frustration — software updates that are intended to make our applications run faster inadvertently end up doing just the opposite. These…
3-D printing is often touted as the future of manufacturing. It allows us to directly build objects from computer-generated designs, meaning industry can…
What distinguishes terahertz quantum cascade lasers from other lasers is the fact that they emit light in the terahertz range of the electromagnetic spectrum….
It happens in every office on any given day: As soon as a worker takes a mug from a cupboard, it becomes his or hers for the rest of the shift. While her…
At the end of December 2019, the first cases of pneumonia caused by a novel coronavirus were reported from the Chinese city of Wuhan. Since then, infections…
In a study published in Nature Communications, the team stored a variety of image files — a Picasso drawing, an image of the Egyptian god Anubis and others –…
As seen in the movie, Black Panther, people from Wakanda Kingdom communicate to each other through the hologram and, this specific movie scene seems to become…
Inland waters are of outstanding importance in Germany and worldwide for drinking water supply, ecology, tourism and agriculture. In Saxony alone there are 23…
A Tactile Internet is potentially the next phase of the Internet of Things, in which humans can touch and interact with remote or virtual objects while…
Human skin is a fascinating and multifunctional organ with unique properties originating from its flexible and compliant nature. It allows for interfacing with…
Scientists of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) now investigate how these methods can be proven by formal procedures and thus…
How would you go about returning books to the correct shelves in a large library with the least amount of walking? How would you determine the shortest route…
Modern mobile navigation is hardly conceivable without the use of satellite-based GPS. Similar solutions that allow for orientation within a small space, for…