10/29/10
On 25 October 2010, the development of Galileo, the future European satellite navigation system, reached another important milestone. In Brussels, the European Space Agency (ESA) and Spaceopal GmbH signed a contract for the operation of 18 Galileo satellites. Spaceopal is a joint venture between ...
10/29/10
Neuherberg, October 28., 2010. The world’s largest research initiative to mutate all mouse genes is now able to reach the summit because the ambitious EUCOMMTOOLS project started on October 1, 2010. This project is being coordinated by Helmholtz Zentrum München and will finalize the groundwork ...
10/29/10
27.10.10 The natural sciences at Freie Universität Berlin are among the best in Europe, according to ratings by the Centre for Higher Education Development (CHE). In the comparison of European universities “ExcellenceRanking 2010” published today by ZEIT ONLINE, biology, chemistry, and physics ...
10/29/10
On 25/10/2010 at 14:42:21 UTC (= 21:42:21 local time), a strong submarine earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 occurred about 25 km southwest of the Pagai island in the Sunda Arc off Sumatra (Indonesia). This triggered a tsunami, which devastated in particular the Mentawai Islands, to which which ...
10/29/10
Oct 27, 10 | The latest issue of the research magazine Pictures of the Future includes reports on sustainable mobility, the development of emerging markets, and demographic change. The magazine provides an overview of the challenges posed by the rising volume of traffic worldwide and describes ...
10/28/10
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry and GlaxoSmithKline enter a research collaboration to develop novel type II diabetes treatments The Max Planck Institute (MPI) of Biochemistry in Martinsried and pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), have signed a research collaboration agreement on ...
10/28/10
More than 20 German universities and science organisations will present their international PhD programmes and discuss future employment opportunities with highly qualified candidates from China. On behalf of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and its campaign “Research in ...
10/28/10
Seventh Liaison Office following New York, Moscow, New Delhi, Beijing, Brussels, and Cairo Freie Universität Berlin has opened a liaison office in South America. It is located in the Brazilian financial and economic metropolis of São Paulo. It is one of seven such offices. The others are in New ...
10/28/10
The investment will initially create 80 new jobs in the region with plans to further increase the amount of employees in the future. Innotech Solar, headquartered in Narvik, Norway, purchases solar cells and uses industrial production techniques to increase the power output and guarantee the ...
10/28/10
Lots of energy is lost due to friction. For example, automotive engines would transmit more power, were there no frictional losses in valves, bearings and cylinder heads. Materials scientists at the Saarland University and the Material Engineering Center Saarland (MECS) have therefore come up ...
