Press releases
News and views on research at the Helmholtz Association - this is the place to look for all the press releases issued by the Helmholtz Association Research Centres. A comfortable search function helps you to view specific news items from the Helmholtz Research Centres in chronological order beginning with 2010. Older press releases since 2003 can be found in our archive or on the website of the relevant Helmholtz Research Centre.
At present only a selection of press releases is available in English - switch to the German version with the topmost navigation bar for a complete overview.
| 12. March 2010 | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) |
Innovation als starke strategische Säule
Jahresempfang 2010: KIT präsentiert sich als wichtiger Kooperationspartner der Wirtschaft
| 10. March 2010 | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) |
Optische Chips reduzieren Internet-Energieverbrauch
EU-Projekt SOFI zielt ab auf extrem schnelle und energieeffiziente Modulatoren für die Telekommunikation
| 08. March 2010 | Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics |
Wendelstein 7-X - installation with certified quality management
The system of quality management governing construction of the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device has now been certified in accordance with the DIN ISO 9001 German industrial standard. The auditors of the TÜV Nord inspectorate thereby confirm that the research device being built at the Greifswald branch of Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics (IPP) conforms to industrial standards – as one of the first in Germany.
Wendelstein 7-X - installation with certified quality management
| 05. March 2010 | Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences |
Inhaltsbereich How the rupture propagated...
Seismic records of the USArray are used to determine the propagation of the rupture within the first 134 sec after origin time. The color code of the propagating signal marks the upper 5 % of the amplitude of the normalized summation trace for local trial epicenters within a time window.
| 04. March 2010 | German Aerospace Center (DLR) |
REXUS 7 and 8 student research rockets launched successfully
On Thursday, 4 March 2010 at 11:15 CET, the research rocket Rexus 8 (Rocket EXperiment for University Students), a joint project of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the Swedish Space Corporation (SSC), launched from SSC’s Esrange Space Center near Kiruna, in Sweden. Students from the Technical Universities of Berlin and Munich, and from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm used the flight to conduct satellite communication experiments and also tested a newly-developed descent probe.
REXUS 7 and 8 student research rockets launched successfully
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