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The German Aerospace Center has developed panels to be set up alongside runways for minimising the air vortices caused by aircraft. Drawn out vortices in the wake of aircraft can throw smaller aeroplanes off course and therefore warrant a safety clearance of currently about 10 km. Since the new ground panels cause these long-lived air vortices to...more

The German Cancer Research Centre team headed by Jochen Hess has identified a chemical marking pattern in the genetic material of cancer cells in the oropharynx, which indicates a less strong progress of the disease. Patients displaying this marker could be eligible for a less intensive and therefore better tolerated treatment. Risk factors for...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...more

Emmanuelle Charpentier from the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) will be honoured with a Humboldt Professorship. Since December 2012, she contributes to the HZI's work with her research on "Regulation in Infection Biology". Charpentier has previously researched at the Institut Pasteur and at the Rockefeller University. In...more

The marine scientists Judith Hauck from the Alfred Wegener Institute and Axel Moeller from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht are awarded the Annette Barthelt Prize for their work on the Antarctic carbon cycle and on long-term pollutant distribution. They each receive a research scholarship to the amount of 3,000 Euro. The prize is in...more