Why Do Plants Grow Towards Light?
An international team is now one step closer to explaining a central observation. Charles Darwin has had a greater influence on science than most. Though…
An international team is now one step closer to explaining a central observation. Charles Darwin has had a greater influence on science than most. Though…
The relationship between exercise intensity and infection risk The relationship between exercise intensity and the emission and concentration of aerosol particles in exhaled air has…
Following a heart attack, cardiac progenitor cells produce healthy tissue A heart attack, also known as a myocardial infarction, occurs when a part of the…
With a grant from Independent Research Fund Denmark, a team of researchers and experts from industry and Aarhus University will try to solve the fundamental…
Worldwide 39 percent of the adults were overweight in 2016, according to statistics of the World Health Organization. In the US the prevalence of obesity…
The tetra-neutron – experiment finds evidence for a long-sought particle comprising four neutrons. While all atomic nuclei except hydrogen are composed of protons and neutrons,…
New technique delivers resolution improvement in ultrafast processes. An international consortium of scientists, initiated by Reinhard Kienberger, Professor of Laser and X-ray Physics at the…
To date, there are no effective antidotes against most virus infections. An interdisciplinary research team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has now developed…
Neutrons “see” internal stress in components from additive manufacturing. 3D printing has opened up a completely new range of possibilities. One example is the production…
MUCCnet: Precision technology allows quantification of urban greenhouse gas emissions. Munich is home to the world’s first fully automated sensor network for measuring urban greenhouse…
How a single cell slime mold makes smart decisions without a central nervous system. Having a memory of past events enables us to make smarter…
A team working with Roland Fischer, Professor of Inorganic and Metal-Organic Chemistry at the Technical University Munich (TUM) has developed a highly efficient supercapacitor. The…
The Borexino experiment research team has succeeded in detecting neutrinos from the sun’s second fusion process, the Carbon Nitrogen Oxygen cycle (CNO cycle) for the…
High-precision measurements of the strong interaction between stable and unstable particles. The positively charged protons in atomic nuclei should actually repel each other, and yet…
Discovery of iron-60 and manganese-53 substantiates supernova 2.5 million years ago. When the brightness of the star Betelgeuse dropped dramatically a few months ago, some…
Researchers at Helmholtz Zentrum München and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed the world’s smallest ultrasound detector. It is based on miniaturized photonic…
Almost all satellites are powered by solar cells – but solar cells are heavy. While conventional high-performance cells reach up to three watts of electricity…
Meteorites give us insight into the early development of the solar system. Using the SAPHiR instrument at the Research Neutron Source Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II)…