As record ocean temperatures cause widespread coral bleaching across Hawaii, NOAA scientists confirm the same stressful conditions are expanding to the…
On Wednesday, 14 October 2015 the research icebreaker Polarstern from the Alfred-Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI),…
The question of whether a person’s position among siblings has a lasting impact on personality has occupied scientist for more than 100 years. Laypeople as…
On October 26th, an international team of scientists will sail from Southampton, UK, on board the British Royal Research Vessel James Cook. During a 6-week…
Bioimaging by fluorescence microscopy is a useful technique to study the localization and movement of molecules in living cells by fluorescence. Yet, the…
The Research Institute for Regional and Urban Development (Institut für Landes- und Stadtentwicklungsforschung, ILS) investigates new social processes,…
Combustion engines still have much potential to save energy and reduce emissions. The present trend is to use smaller engines of the same or even increased…
For over one hundred years, the distribution of different sizes of trees in forests has been one of the core attributes recorded by foresters and ecologists…
The German Research Foundation (DFG) will be providing approximately EUR 11 million over the next four years to fund a new collaborative research center on…
The international research group “BEF-China” received funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG) for a period of eight years. Its aim was to determine…
Two characteristic features of malignant tumours are that they form massive blood vessels and bypass the immune system. A new cell culture technique allows the…
Scientists at the Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) in Mainz have identified a missing piece of the puzzle in understanding how epigenetic marks are removed…
In experiments on the fruit fly model organism Drosophila melanogaster, Heidelberg University biologists gained new insight into how feeding behaviour is…
For the first time, and using physical methods, scientists have demonstrated how red blood cells move. There had been real fights between academics over the…
Rail customers expect to be served by trains that function perfectly from the very first day of service. This is particularly true for the new Intercity…
As a study on mice performed under the direction of the German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE) has now shown, a high-fat diet during pregnancy and…
The sheer complexity of today’s production systems makes “going with your gut” decision making a questionable approach at best. So as part of the EU-funded…
The resulting gravitational wave was measured already in September 2015; yesterday, the evaluation of the data was published in the Physical Review Letters and…
The research team led by Farnaz Keyhani-Nejad and Andreas F. H. Pfeiffer of DIfE has now published its results in the journal Diabetes Care (Keyhani-Nejad et…