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In a demanding competition, the Helmholtz Association has chosen 14 young scientists, who now can set up their own research group at Helmholtz centres. With annual funding of 250,000 Euro over five years and the option towards an unlimited employment contract, these grants are the ideal stepping stone towards a scientific career for early career...more

Any kind of brain activity involves the passing on of signals from one nerve cell to the next. This can often result in up to 1,000 signals arriving at one single cell. In order to cope with these amounts, the brain features a well-thought out repression system. Scientists from the team around Prof. Dr Stefan Remy from the German Center for...more

A team of KIT researchers around Prof. Dr Christian Koos has developed an innovative optical link between semiconductor chips. "Photonic Wire Bonding" allows for high rates of data transfer in the range of several terabit per second and is excellently suited for production on an industrial scale. In future, this technology could render...more

For ten years now, the Quantum Leap Helmholtz Centre Geesthacht Laboratory for Schools has been sparking school children's interest in the natural sciences and in technology. So far, more than 35,000 pupils and 2,800 teachers have attended the range of courses on offer. Dirk Loßack, State Secretary to the Federal State of Schleswig-Holstein,...more

Oxygen isotopes in the annual growth rings of trees are an excellent archive of precipitation dynamics in the tropical Amazon region. This is the result of a study conducted by a group of researchers from the Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, the universities of Leeds (GB) and Utrecht (Netherlands) and from the...more