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No, what we see here is not sweet corn. It is a microscopically small transport vehicle that was developed by researchers from the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research and the Saarland University. With this prototype of an "active agent taxi", they intend to test the transport of pharmaceutical drugs within lung cells. For this...more

The NASA plans to send people to Mars within the next 20 years. Because cosmic radiation causes cancer, the astronauts will have to protect themselves during their long sojourn in space. Upon commission by the European Space Agency ESA, the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research GmbH investigates whether rock from the Moon or Mars could be...more

From 19 to 21 February 2013 in Hamburg, the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) hosts the international workshop “Monte Carlo-Methods in Natural Sciences, Engineering and Economics”. Monte Carlo-methods are mathematical algorithms that are widely used in a very broad range of disparate disciplines.more

In 2011, the Helmholtz Association centres were again able to successfully transfer their research results to be applied in the broader context of society at large, politics and the industry. We report on the Helmholtz-Siemens Energy Workshop and furthermore on the Helmholtz-Roche Research Day and the Innovation Days coming up in November 2012. more

The generation of electric power from wind and solar energy facilities is very volatile and therefore not linked to power consumption. The further development of renewable energy sources is thus dependent on the ability of storing large amounts of energy and their quick release when required. Innovative high-temperature batteries on the basis of...more