The Cancer Information Service of the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) in Heidelberg establishes its first outstation in Germany at the University Cancer Center in Dresden (Universitäts KrebsCentrum Dresden). As of March 2010, the new service will be staffed initially with two female doctors who will answer questions by telephone from patients and their families primarily from the East of Germany.

Cancer Information Service Now Also Operating From Dresden

The Helmholtz Association’s network of Regional Climate Offices has produced a regional climate atlas for Germany showing the possible effects of climate change at the regional level. The climate scenarios for Germany’s federal states are now available to the public for online reference.

Online now: the Regional Climate Atlas for Germany

Vom 2. bis 6. März öffnet die CeBIT in Hannover wieder ihre Türen. Das Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) präsentiert neueste Ergebnisse aus seiner Forschung. Zu sehen und zu erleben sind am Stand A02/1 in Halle 9 im „future parc“ unter anderem eine Software zur Sprach-zu-Sprach-Übersetzung für Vorlesungen und Parlamentsdebatten, eine Methode für lautloses Telefonieren sowie eine Verschlüsselungstechnik für mobile Kommunikationsgeräte. Auch das Forschungszentrum Informatik FZI als Innovationspartner des KIT ist am KIT-Stand mit drei Exponaten vertreten.

The Interpreter in the Laptop

In March’s Bowel Cancer Awareness Month there will be many initiatives throughout Germany to provide information about bowel cancer and to encourage people to participate in early bowel cancer detection programs. The German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) will also participate in the awareness month activities, because recent results obtained at DKFZ show that early detection is particularly effective for this type of cancer. DKFZ’s Cancer Information Service will offer an extra telephone line for the topic of bowel cancer prevention throughout the month of March.

Not Only in March’s Bowel Cancer Awareness Month: The German Cancer Research Center Supports Early Bowel Cancer Detection

Fragments of the Ross Ice Shelf, which drift past the edge of the Ekstrom Ice Shelf in Antarctica, have a long trip around the Antarctic continent behind them. Recently an iceberg collided with the ice shelf, dislodging a large chunk as well as causing extensive cracks of some distance in the ice shelf. Scientists of the Alfred Wegener Institute are expecting new and valuable insights with regard to ice physics.

Iceberg collides with the ice shelf edge near Neumayer Station III