5/21/12
Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) technicians can order replacement parts online directly from the job site. Siemens has further developed its Old2New service tool as an iPhone app. A technician who is standing in a basement looking at a part that needs to be replaced - a meter, ...
5/21/12
A new manufacturing technology is expected to greatly reduce the cost of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) in the future. For the first time ever, researchers at the Siemens subsidiary Osram Opto Semiconductors were able to successfully produce gallium nitride LED chips on a silicon substrate instead ...
5/21/12
Almost 15 years after being paralysed by a stroke, a 58-year-old US-American woman was once again able to serve herself a drink of coffee. This was possible thanks to a state-of-the-art DLR robot arm and hand that she controlled with neural signals sent directly from her brain. It took just a ...
5/21/12
Multiphoton Microscopy New Possibilities for Multiphoton Microscopy from Carl Zeiss OPO and simultaneous lasers for LSM 7 seriesRTF Documents JENA/Germany, 16.05.2012. Multiphoton confocal microscopes from Carl Zeiss now permit the simultaneous use of two NLO lasers or one laser with an optical ...
5/21/12
In fall 2011 Siemens ran a university contest for the first time in order to identify new research partners on „Smart Grid“. More than 3.000 professors were invited to participate in the Call for Proposals. Siemens received a multitude of innovative research proposals from Top-Universities on ...
5/21/12
15 May 2012 Research Minister Schavan and Humboldt Foundation President Schwarz confer Humboldt Professorships in Berlin Six leading researchers from abroad received Alexander von Humboldt Professorships on Tuesday evening in Berlin. Germany’s highest-valued international research award, worth ...
5/21/12
International Conference by the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context" The term stress' emerged about 70 years ago as a medico-social concept that was developed in the West and then rapidly spread. Heidelberg University's Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global ...
5/21/12
For years now, cancer researchers have obtained evidence suggesting that beta blockers, which are prescribed for millions of patients to treat high blood pressure, may impact cancer risk. On this year´;s World Hypertension Day on May 17, a detailed study from the German Cancer Research Center ...
5/21/12
Grants Committee Decides on New Establishment and Extensions To further strengthen early career support for researchers in Germany, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) has approved the establishment of a new Research Training Group. This was decided by the ...
5/21/12
After the Fukushima nuclear explosions, Germany responded to the heightened international focus on energy procurement by returning to a fast-paced nuclear phase-out program. On May 21, a lunch discussion at the German Center for Research and Innovation (GCRI) will address the mechanisms for ...
