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Prof. Dr Monika Koch-Müller from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam – GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences has been elected a Fellow of the "Mineralogical Society of America" (MSA). The requirement for a MSA Fellowship is a scientific paper that has significantly promoted mineralogy, crystallography, petrology, geochemistry or a related...more

The IONYS AG, a spin-off company of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the University of Karlsruhe, has made it to the top ten in the federal state competition for young enterprises. In the competition called by the Baden-Württemberg federal state government and the L-Bank, the enterprise has prevailed against more than 460 participants....more

In the field of health research, the German science system has seen an internationally significant change: In future, the Max Delbrück Centre for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch and the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin medical school are to join forces under the roof of the newly formed Berliner Institut für Gesundheitsforschung (BIG -...more

It is 25 metres long, 13 metres wide and three storeys high: the University Hospital Heidelberg's new ion radiation control device (Gantry) at the Heidelberger Ionenstrahl-Therapiezentrum (HIT - Heidelberg Ion Radiation Therapy Centre). The combination of proton and heavy ion radiation, developed by the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research,...more

The conviction of Italian seismologists in consequence of the L'Aquila earthquake once again highlighted the fact that earthquakes cannot be predicted. Yet why should this be so, what with plate tectonics providing such an excellent and well-established concept for explaining the processes on and within our planet?more