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A JARA working group headed by Professor Rainer Waser of RWTH Aachen University has developed a novel switching concept and the attendant technology for so-called "memristor chips". The group's research results, which have now been published in the high-profile journal Nature Materials, has the ...
4/30/10
Panel discussion on Wednesday, May 5, 2010, from 6 to 8 P.M., on the correlation between patents and innovation – featuring Myles W. Jackson, Regina Oertel, and Peter J. Esser. Dana Beldiman will moderate. The event will take place at 871 United Nations Plaza (1st Avenue btw. 48th & 49th ...
4/30/10
Germany is the top business location for American companies in Europe, according to a recent survey conducted by the American Chamber of Commerce in Germany (AmCham). Germany enjoys an excellent reputation as Europe’s largest market with unwavering demand throughout the downturn. In Eastern ...
4/30/10
It has recently emerged, that the presence of crystalline cholesterol in the walls of our arteries is a major cause of life-threatening inflammation. This has been demonstrated in a study jointly run by the universities of Massachusetts, Bonn and Munich (LMU). The findings show that the body's ...
4/30/10
There is fresh buzz in nanomechanics. Scientists at the University of Bonn have succeeded for the first time in making, out of DNA double stands, an interlocked molecule (rotaxane) with freely moveable components. As the researchers wrote in the latest edition of the science journal "Nature ...
4/30/10
On April 26th 2010, the ceremony of the official opening of the Bavarian Academic Center for Latin America (Bayerisches Hochschulzentrum für Lateinamerika, Centro Universitário da Baviera para América Latina, BAYLAT) at the University of Erlangen-Nuernberg took place in the city of Erlangen. Dr. ...
4/30/10
The 70 million visitors expected to attend the World "Expo" in Shanghai, which is scheduled to open on 1 May, will also have several opportunities to witness the University of Stuttgart's achievements. The world's biggest membrane roof over the entrance axis of the Expo was designed by graduates ...
4/29/10
The concept of “social entrepreneurship” lies at the heart of a research project on which Dr. Volker Then of Heidelberg University’s Centre for Social Investment is working. The funding for the project totals approx. 507,000 euros. With colleagues from the Zeppelin University at Friedrichshafen ...
4/29/10
International Conference from May 25-27 Different views and aspects of the State of Israel are in the focus of the international conference "The World facing Israel – Israel facing the World: Images and Politics," organized by the Studienstelle Israel at the Department of Political Science and ...
4/29/10
The Helmholtz Association promotes the establishment of two new Helmholtz Graduate Schools and four Helmholtz Research Schools, in order to offer optimal supervision opportunities for new generation scientists during their Ph.D. studies. And one or more universities as cooperation partners are ...
