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The climate debate is gridlocked: the goal of limiting temperature increase to two degrees Celsius is scientifically controversial; the quarrel between sceptics and admonishers stifles the debate and renders political action difficult. The climate researcher Hans von Storch and the ethnologist Werner Krauß state: "We are stuck in a climate...more

Roskosmos and ESA are planning joint missions to Mars the Helmholtz Moscow Office reports. Furthermore Russia will create jobs for young researchers and aims to strenghten the universities. This year the Brussels office launched a series of workshops on "Future Technologies" and committed in May its annual event under the slogan "Big Science". Our...more

Between 10 and 11 June, the central library of the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY and the Helmholtz Open Access Coordination Office offer a Helmholtz Open Access Workshop, hosted at DESY. The event provides a platform for information exchange and discussion regarding the open access to publications and research data. The focus is on the...more

The research group "Biological Modelling" at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, headed by Michael Scholz, has developed a model for calculating the optimal ion beam dose for radiation treatment of tumours.  The GSI now has licensed the so-called Local Effect Model (LEM) to RaySearch Laboratories in Stockholm for...more

The Jülich-Aachen Research Alliance (JARA) team around Rainer Waser has found out that so-called resistive memory cells (ReRAM) function also as a battery. So far, the tiny memory cells were considered to be purely passive elements. The discovery opens up new possibilities for optimised production and practical application. The innovative...more