Research News
Two Galileo Satellites now in Orbit
The Galileo satellite during testing at Thales Alenia Space in Rome during May 2011. Bild: ESA /S. Corvaja, 2011The first two fully functioning Galileo satellites now orbit the Earth in about 23,222 kilometres height. They departed from the Guiana Space Centre spaceport near Kourou in French Guiana on 21 October aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket. Thus the building of an independent outer-space European satellite navigation system finally has begun. more
What is the Point of the Durban Climate Conference?
The next UN Climate Conference will take place in Durban, South Africa, from 28 November to 9 December 2011. Expectations are low, it is presumed that the states will not arrive at a consensus towards a follow-up agreement for the Kyoto Protocol. With the expiry of the Kyoto Protocol in 2012 the instruments for limiting emissions and financing the...more
Cosmic Radiation Knees Understood
Cosmic particles can cause so-called particle showers in the atmosphere, which can be measured in ground-based experiments such as KASCADE-Grande at the KIT. The data allow to derive mass, energy and direction of origin of the primary particles. With increasing energy, the particle flow decreases. Yet this energy spectrum displays turning points...more
Environmental Network in the Mediterranean
The French research syndicate SICMED cooperates with the German TERENO-MED Network to conduct a long-term investigation of the effects the demographic, economic and climatic change has on Mediterranean water resources and ecosystems. The TERENO-MED Network is headed by the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in cooperation with the...more
Green Tea Cheap Prophylaxis
There already are more than 100 clinical studies world-wide that have researched the effect of green tea on Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, Chorea Huntington, multiple sclerosis, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, cardiovascular diseases, obesity, arteriosclerosis and cancer. However, during an international conference on "Tea and Health" at the...more
Technology Transfer 2011/11
Knowledge and Technology Transfer within the Helmholtz Association – the Current Balance
Many people have been active in transferring knowledge and technology within the Helmholtz Association also in this past year. Be it via publications and lectures, via articles in the media or in the context of political consulting – the transfer of knowledge...more
