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Helmholtz - Partner to the German Health Centres
The German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ) likewise contributes its expert knowledge to cancer research at the German Centres for Health Research. The centre also maintains a successful information service, giving citizens the opportunity to submit their questions regarding the topic of cancer via a hotline. Photo: KIDGermany’s Federal Minister for Education and Research, Annette Schavan, gave the starting signal for four new health research centres. These are the German Centres for Cardio-Vascular, Lung and Infection Research and the German Consortium for Translational Cancer Research. Upon recommendation from the review committees, five Helmholtz Centres will be involved alongside numerous university and extramural partners.more
World's Largest Spring-Chest Organ Restored by HZDR Technology
After a restoration period of more than five years, the world-wide largest preserved spring-chest organ located in Borgentreich/Westphalia now was reinaugurated. Involved in the restoration process were also scientists from the Helmholtz Centre Dresden-Rossendorf and from the Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg. In the seventeenth century,...more
Citizen Science Project Demonstrates Rapid Evolution in Banded Snails
Changes can force animals to speedy evolutionary adjustments. This is the conclusion an international team of researchers has drawn from evaluating historical and current data regarding shell colours and patterns of more than half a million specimens of grove or brown-lipped banded snails (Cepaea nemoralis), one of the most common species of land...more
Searching Space for Antimatter and Dark Matter
KIT Experts Involved in Building the Instrument
These questions could be answered by precise surveying of cosmic radiation outside the Earth's atmosphere. To this effect, an international collaborative research team designed a spectrometer which the space shuttle Endeavour is to convey to the International Space Station. Furthermore, the...more
Nearly 370,000 Jobs in Renewables
In 2010, 367,400 people in Germany worked in the field of renewable energies. Their number thus increased by approximately eight percent compared to the previous year. This is the result the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) presented together with the German Institute for Economic Research (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - DIW), the...more
Arctic Coasts Pulling Back
The coastline in Arctic permafrost regions reacts to climate change with increased erosion. On average, it recedes by half a metre per year. This entails major changes for the Arctic coastal ecosystems and the population living there. The assessment results from the work of a pool of more than thirty scientists from ten countries, among them...more
