In April, the report of plastic bag eating caterpillars caused sensation in worldwide media. The authors around Federica Bertocchini of the University in…
Climate change, offshore wind parks, input from agriculture or from hydraulic engineering influence the life in and around the Elbe and Wadden Sea. Prognoses…
Airplanes thundering a few dozen meters over the rooftops of residences, roaring ship engines that frighten sea creatures, driving cars that create a basic…
A central aspect of life sciences is to explore the symbiotic cohabitation of animals, plants and humans with their specific bacterial communities. Scientists…
“It is quite an irony that forming the coal that today is a major factor for dangerous global warming once almost lead to global glaciation,” says author Georg…
Chemistry is a complex dance of atoms. Subtle shifts in position and shuffles of electrons break and remake chemical bonds as participants change partners….
The 5th ASEAN Energy Outlook (AEO5), like its 2015 predecessor, was accompanied scientifically by Fraunhofer ISI and developed by the ASEAN Centre for Energy,…
On August 17, 2017, at 12:41:04 UTC, scientists made the first direct observation of a merger between two neutron stars–the dense, collapsed cores that remain…
Active flow control has nothing to do with flowing rivers and the dead wake is actually air, and not really dead at all. Basically speaking: “We investigate…
The three proteins usually targeted by pharmacist Sonja M. Kessler in her research work are known to play an important role in embryos in the womb. These…
Screening for colorectal cancer (CRC) should begin at 45 years of age to match rising mortality rates in young adults, research presented today at the 25th UEG…
“A way to someone’s heart is through their stomach” is a popular saying. But it is not only in humans that romance and a good dinner seem to go together well….
Now a team of scientists led by the University of Southampton has moved a step closer to understanding these mysterious cosmic phenomena – known as…
Security features are to protect bank notes, documents, and branded products against counterfeiting. Losses caused by product forgery and counterfeiting may be…
The Colorado River’s initial trip to the ocean didn’t come easy, but its story has emerged from layers of sediment preserved within tectonically active…
When an organism develops, large numbers of cells migrate from place to place in order to form tissue and organs in the right spots. In order to be able to…
The western corn rootworm (Diabrotica virgifera virgifera) is a devastating pest of maize plants, which has spread throughout Europe. This year’s pest…
It is one of the shipping industry’s major problems: marine organisms like barnacles, algae or muscles quickly cover the hulls of ships and damage their…
A research team made up of Bern-based communications scientists (Silke Adam, Thomas Häussler, Ueli Reber and Hannah Schmid-Petri) wanted to know how hyperlinks…
New scientific findings suggest neutrino detectors may play an important role in ensuring better monitoring and safer storage of radioactive material in…
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