environmental monitoring
Species Richness – a false friend? Scientists want to improve biodiversity assessments
A growing number of species are under threat of extinction – in particular due to global environmental changes. Political instruments such as the International…
Fingerprint' technique spots frog populations at risk from pollution
Worldwide, amphibian populations are declining due to habitat loss, disease and pollution which is cited as a major threat to their survival.
Paper skin sensors for environmental monitoring
Everyday materials found in the kitchen, such as aluminum foil, sticky note paper, sponges and tape, have been used by a team of electrical engineers from King…
Miniaturizable magnetic resonance
A garnet crystal only one micrometre in diameter was instrumental in a University of Alberta team of physicists creating a route to “lab-on-a-chip” technology…
Lasers for Fast Internet in Space – Space Technology from Aachen
After eight years of preparation, in the early morning of June 23 the time had come: in Kourou in French Guiana, the European Space Agency launched the…
Tiny antennas let long light waves see in infrared
“The identification of molecules by sensing their unique absorption resonances is very important for environmental monitoring, industrial process control and…