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Bavarian companies embracing quantum science

Bavarian companies embracing quantum science

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

In order to fully realize the potential of QST, Bavarian businesses are already working with research institutions. Bavaria is fully committed to becoming a major global hub for quantum science and technology. Here are some illustrations of important projects and ongoing corporate initiatives as detailed by Invest in Bavaria.   Facilitating the Mittelstand's (mid-sized companies') access to quantum computing. Many of the large corporations in Bavaria have established their own QST research...

Cure for age-related blindness on horizon

Cure for age-related blindness on horizon

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

Life Biosciences, a biotechnology company developing innovative cellular rejuvenation techniques to reverse aging and injury-related diseases and ultimately restore health to patients, today announced preclinical data in non-human primates (NHP) for its new gene therapy candidate that uses partial epigenetic reprogramming to restore visual function. This approach has been shown to reverse aging in mice, improving vision and extending lifespan, but it was not known whether epigenetic...

Italy bans laboratory meat

Italy bans laboratory meat

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

Italians have an intimate relationship with their agriculture, which is known to produce many good foods. Farm animals are also part of this relationship, albeit a complex one. In the Alpine province of Belluno, for example, citizens can adopt a cow from a cooperative, from which they then receive cheese and butter. On the other hand, as elsewhere, people prefer not to know too much about the specific stages of the food chain, such as what happens in the slaughterhouse or when calves are...

CO2 now stored in the Danish North Sea

CO2 now stored in the Danish North Sea

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

Under the Danish seabed, CO2 from Belgium has been stored at a depth of 1800 meters for a few weeks. It works like this: In a chemical plant in Antwerp, the carbon dioxide produced during production is captured, liquefied, loaded onto a ship tanker and brought to Denmark. There it is pumped deep underground and injected into the sandstone layers of the depleted Nini oil field. This huge CO2 storage facility was built by a consortium led by the British chemical company Ineos and the BASF...

Coffee consumption: researchers discover new effects on brain

Coffee consumption: researchers discover new effects on brain

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

With a per capita consumption of 162 liters per year, coffee is the Germans' absolute favorite beverage. Coffee is not only enjoyed because of its taste. The caffeine it contains makes us feel more alert and concentrated. The caffeine stimulates the heartbeat, as well as the intestinal function and thus has noticeable effects on the body. But coffee consumption has more than just positive effects: As researchers at the University Psychiatric Clinics (UPK) Basel and the University of Basel have...

Google discovers security gaps in smartphones

Google discovers security gaps in smartphones

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

Small chips, big security holes: A security team from the Internet company Google has found serious vulnerabilities in various chips manufactured by Samsung. The so-called Exynos modem chips are responsible for establishing mobile data connections. They are not only installed in Samsung devices, but are also used by other manufacturers, for example in Google's Pixel smartphones or those of the smartphone manufacturer Vivo. Affected devices include the Samsung Galaxy S22 and the Galaxy A71....

2022 was one of the two warmest years on record

2022 was one of the two warmest years on record

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

According to the German Weather Service (DWD), Germany experienced an "exceptional weather year" in 2022. According to the preliminary annual balance, the 2018 temperature record of 10.5 degrees Celsius was at least set. Overall, DWD calculations showed an annual mean temperature of 10.5 degrees Celsius this year. 2022 would thus be 2.3 degrees above the value of the internationally valid reference period 1961 to 1990. Only the final evaluation of all station data in early January will show...

EU wants to tighten emissions trading

EU wants to tighten emissions trading

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

Consumers and companies in the EU will have to pay more frequently for carbon dioxide (CO?) emissions in the future. Negotiators from the EU Parliament and the states agreed on a reform of EU emissions trading early Sunday morning, according to the Czech Council presidency. This is intended to make the most important instrument of European climate protection policy much more powerful. In addition, a new climate social fund is to cushion the consequences of the energy transition for consumers....

Test flight for NASA

Test flight for NASA "Artemis" moon mission launched

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

After months of postponements, the crisis-ridden NASA lunar mission "Artemis 1" departed on Wednesday for a first test launch. The unmanned capsule "Orion" took off with the "Space Launch System" rocket from the Cape Canaveral spaceport in the U.S. state of Florida, as could be seen on live images from the U.S. space agency NASA. For about three weeks, "Orion" is to travel in an orbit around the moon before the capsule is expected back on Earth on December 11. So far, the mission has not been...

Europe's first ecosystem with its own rights

Europe's first ecosystem with its own rights

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

The largest saltwater lagoon in the western Mediterranean is threatened with ecological collapse. Intensive agriculture is poisoning the "Mar Menor" in the Spanish province of Murcia, and the "Lesser Sea" is about to suffocate: Only a narrow sandy strip of land separates the unique ecosystem the once very popular vacation area from the open sea, but for the past four years a foul-smelling "green soup" has been forming again and again, depriving the fish and other marine life of the last air they...

Global warming in Arctic much faster than previously assumed

Global warming in Arctic much faster than previously assumed

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

Global warming in the wake of the climate crisis has progressed much faster in the Arctic than previously assumed, according to Finnish researchers.According to a new study by scientists at the Finnish Meteorological Institute in Helsinki, the Arctic region has warmed almost four times as fast as the global average over the past 43 years. On a regional scale, some areas in the Arctic Ocean have even warmed up to seven times as fast as the planet as a whole, they write in the journal...

Deutsches Museum becomes fit for the future

Deutsches Museum becomes fit for the future

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

The Deutsches Museum in Munich is one of the largest science and technology museums in the world. It has been undergoing renovation since 2015. Now the first phase of the renovation work has been completed and the museum will be offering visitors their first glimpses. The Deutsches Museum was founded in 1903 and has been renovated and expanded ever since. A renovation, the revision of old and the conception of new permanent exhibitions had become urgently necessary. Refurbishment work has been...

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Der verschwundene Wunschzettel

Join us for an enchanting Christmas adventure at the Münchner Marionettentheater! Experience the marionette play 'Der verschwundene Wunschzettel' by Siegfried Böhmke, featuring our beloved Kasperl Larifari and his little friend Stupsi. As Christmas approaches, both Kasperl and Stupsi have prepared...

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