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Munich shines in Hannover Messe

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

Recently, the international trade fair Hannover Messe took place, from April 23-27, bringing together some of the world's most interesting and ground-breaking innovations in various field of technology. You can check their website for videos of the event at hannovermesse video.

Munich researchers had a place at this conference with an innovative vehicle named "Innotruck", designed with a futuristic look and a smart "mind" of its own, being capable of interacting with its driver, and...

Why spiders dont stick to their own web, centuries old mystery solved

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

Researchers at the University of Costa Rica led by Daniel Briceños and William Eberhard tackle the very old yet never fully answered question of just how come spiders do not stick to their own webs. This Research Snapshot comes all the way from Costa Rica, pura vida! Researchers Daniel Briceños and William Eberhard from the University of Costa Rica and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama have figured out the ancient question of just how spiders avoid sticking to their own...

Celebrate Earth's day with this heart-warming tale

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

To celebrate Earth's day 2012, DisneyNature has released a new nature film, this time about Chimpanzees, and about a very lucky 3-year old chimp called Oscar.

See the preview here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb8AeSh1rGs So what is the story behind this film?
Jane Goodall is a famous British primatologist who has worked with wild chimpanzees for over 45 years at the Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania. While she was not involved in the production of the movie, she is promoting it, and...

Researchers identify the dietary patterns of German teens

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

Are your kids eating healthy? Probably not, new study reports A new study analyzing the eating patterns of German adolescents reveal who eats what, and how healthy they are. Its results suggest that boys from all socio-economic status and adolescents of both sexes from low-income families have the least healthy diets. Almut Richter, from the Technical University of Munich, and his colleagues, analyzed data obtained from the German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Children and...

Munich researchers use DNA to design novel nano-scale structures with special optical properties

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

Munich researchers use DNA to design novel nano-scale structures with special optical properties The team used a recently designed technique, called "DNA origami", to build a nano-scale structure resembling a staircase using DNA building blocks, which were modified to interact with light in specific ways. Their results promises a new era in the design of sensors and other applications in medical and environmental technology. Back in 2006 a new, an exciting new technique was presented to the...

Jupiter, Venus and the moon are meeting up, you can join too

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

TMT brings you closer to the sky this coming Tuesday, with a live broadcast of the junction of 3 heavenly bodies: a crescent moon, Venus and Jupiter. Starting at 3:00 AM on Tuesday, the Slooh Space Camera will broadcast a real-time feed of this event. Slooth is a robotic telescope service that provides live views from several telescopes from around the world. You can learn more here about this cool service (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slooh). So what will you see? Something like what is shown...

World's smallest chameleons found in Madagascar

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

World's smallest chameleons have been found in Madagascar, with some so small they can stand comfortably on the tip of a match. Researchers led by Frank Glaw, from the Zoological State Collection in Munich, have discovered four new species of miniature chameleons in Madagascar. These new species are among the smallest reptiles known in the world. Their findings are published on the Feb. 15 issue of the open access journal PLoS ONE. World's smallest
The new species belong to a genus or group of...

Does coffee cause or prevents headaches?

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

People who consume high amounts of caffeine each day are more likely to suffer occasional headaches than those with low caffeine consumption, a team of researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) reports in a study recently published in the Journal of Headache Pain. It is also reported that low caffeine consumption was associated with a greater likelihood of chronic headaches, defined as headaches for 14 or more days each month. The relationship between caffeine...

Ambient lighting influences how wine tastes

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

The background lighting provided in a room has an influence on how we taste wine. This is the result of a survey conducted by researchers at the Institute of Psychology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. Several sub-surveys were conducted in which about 500 participants were asked how they liked a particular wine and how much they would pay for it. It was found that the same wine was rated higher when exposed to red or blue ambient light rather than green or white light, reports...

Going to the Gym Shouldn't Be a Workout for Your Eardrums

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

Listening to an iPod while working out feels like second nature to many people, but University of Alberta researcher Bill Hodgetts says we need to consider the volume levels in our earphones while doing sports. His research has found that exercising in a gym often prompts people to turn up the volume to potentially unsafe levels for the ear, according to ScienceDaily. It isn't the listening level alone that's risky, it's how long a person listens at that level. What Hodgetts found is that...

Study: video game success may be in the mind

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

If you find video games a struggle, it could be to do with the size of certain parts of your brain, a study suggests. According to BBC News, US researchers found they could predict how well an amateur player might perform on a game by measuring the volume of key sections of the brain. A multi-disciplinary team from the University of Illinois, the University of Pittsburgh and Massachusetts Institute of Technology recruited 39 adults who had spent less than three hours each week playing video...

Cell Phone Can Help Save Energy

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

A team of scientists has developed an application for cell phones that would help save power by showing the energy consumption of individual devices in the household. The application was recently unveiled at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Informational Technology (FIT) in Sankt Augustin, Germany, says Zeenews. The basis for this program is the "Hydra" middleware developed by the institute which is extended by an energy protocol. The middleware reduces the workload of programmers. In...

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