Research News
Brain Signals Control Robotic Arm
Controlled by software capable of learning, the robotic arm can be moved by the power of thought. Photo: DLRA worldwide unique assist system enables fully paralysed people to control a robotic arm by using brain signals only. For this development, Prof. Dr Patrick van der Smagt, expert for robotics at the German Aerospace Centre (DLR), and the neuroscientist Prof. Dr John P. Donoghue, Brown University, USA, receive the Erwin Schrödinger Prize 2012, awarded by turns by the Helmholtz Association and by the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft, the business community's innovation agency for the...more
Wendelstein 7-X now with Lid
The installation works at the research facility Wendelstein 7-X at the Greifswald branch institute of the Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik (IPP) are in full swing: By now, the facility displays its final shape. Wendelstein 7-X will be the worldwide largest fusion device created using the stellarator concept and is intended to demonstrate...more
Contract with Copernicus Publications Facilitates Open Access Publishing
Six Helmholtz centres have entered into an agreement with the Copernicus Publications publishing house to enable scientists to easily publish their research results in Open Access professional journals. Copernicus Publications is the worldwide largest Open Access publishing house in the field of geosciences and publishes 28 professional journals...more
New Data Highway for FAIR
In a first development phase, the high-speed data network "FAIR Tera Net" has been put into service. It connects the universities in the Federal State of Hessen and the LOEWE-CSC supercomputer with the future international accelerator centre FAIR (Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research) at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion...more
GITEWS in Indonesia
In July, Federal Chancellor Dr Angela Merkel visited the tsunami early warning centre in Jakarta, which was established by the Helmholtz Association upon commission by the German federal government in the wake of the devastating 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. For this purpose, Helmholtz experts around Dr Jörn Lauterjung from the GFZ have developed a...more
Helmholtz international - News from the Helmholtz Offices in Moscow, Brussels and Beijing
News from the Moscow Office:
International Research Groups Establish Research Centres at Skolkovo Tech
The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (SkolTech) is a non-governmental training and research institute that was established in Skolkovo near Moscow in 2011 under active participation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...more
