9/30/10
A new department at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics is solely devoted to language and genetics On October 1, 2010, the MPI for Psycholinguistics will be extended with a new department on Language and Genetics, headed by Dr. Simon E. Fisher of Oxford University. Human children have ...
9/30/10
The Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) is systematically expanding its international network in vocational training and VET research. On the occasion of a joint international conference in Cologne, the Vice Chancellor of the University of Cologne, Professor Thomas ...
9/30/10
Laser technology can be used to improve gas metal-arc welding. If a low power laser beam precedes the arc, the arc follows it, and is stabilized. Thus, not only the welding seam quality is improved, but the welding speed can also be increased up to 100 per cent faster. This process is presently ...
9/29/10
Highly sensitive TNT detection with nanowires In recent years, researchers began to develop methods of trace analysis of explosive substances – not only to prevent a terrorist attack but also to detect contaminations on former military grounds. Fernando Patolsky and his team of the University ...
9/29/10
New insights into the function of basophilic granulocytes Basophilic granulocytes (basophils) are the Ugly Ducklings of immunology. They are relatively rare and were largely ignored by researchers until quite recently. But these leukocytes (white blood cells) actually play an important role in ...
9/29/10
Shortly after their colleagues at the nearby Bruckhausen BOF meltshop, the production team at the Beeckerwerth BOF meltshop of ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe in Duisburg now also have reason to celebrate: At 2.37 a.m. last Saturday, September 25, the facility produced its 200 millionth metric ton of ...
9/29/10
Freie Universität Partner of Exhibition Covering 300 Years of Science in Berlin With lectures by prominent experts and many interesting exhibits, Freie Universität Berlin is participating in the exhibition on world knowledge that opens on September 24 in Martin Gropius Bau. Berlin is presented ...
9/29/10
EU-funded project at Klinikum rechts der Isar develops new methods The European Union is funding a research project coordinated by the Klinikum rechts der Isar der Technischen Universität München (TUM), Munich, Germany with 3.2 Mio Euro. The project develops new methods for treatment of ...
9/29/10
The free-electron laser FLASH (Free-Electron Laser in Hamburg) has set a new record: this weekend, the FLASH accelerator team operated the FEL with an electron energy of 1.25 Giga electronvolts, thus reaching a wavelength of 4.12 nanometres. For the first time FLASH has generated laser light in ...
9/29/10
Researchers have transformed the skeleton of a leaf into iron carbide. The new technique enables the conversion of metal carbides into intricate microstructures in just one step As recently confirmed by a group of chemists from the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, nature can ...
