A building-scale assessment combines flood modelling with social vulnerability analysis to help identify where people may be most affected, and where support is needed most. HANNOVER, 23 October 2026 ...

For nearly five years, 26 research institutions, companies and start-ups have joined forces in QSolid to develop a quantum computer using cutting-edge German technology: a 30-qubit quantum chip with ...

Only 13 percent of companies are satisfied with the federal government’s economic policy or view it neutrally. Dissatisfaction has risen particularly sharply in the three states where new state ...

The study was published in the prestigious journal “Communications Psychology”. Why are some people more drawn to new and exciting experiences than others? This phenomenon is usually explained by the ...

One of the cell’s most important organelles is the endoplasmic reticulum, a dynamic network that extends throughout the cell and plays an essential role in cell growth. Using a method they developed ...

Researchers from the IUF – Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine and Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf have systematically validated marker genes for this purpose and developed a ...

Under planned amendments to the German Renewable Energy Sources Act, biogas plants are expected to supply electricity primarily when wind and solar power generation is low and electricity prices are ...

An international team of physicists has, for the first time, developed a molecular ‘machine’ based on the principle of the Archimedes’ screw. The helical molecule is set in rotation by an electric ...

The Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (TUM MIRMI) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and NEURA Robotics have opened the TUM RoboGym, one of Europe’s most advanced training ...

Two humanities scholars at Goethe University have secured "Opus Magnum" funding from the Volkswagen Foundation; both are focusing on lyric poetry. For a period of eighteen months, they will be able to ...

On October 1, 2026, Franziska Boenisch took over as a director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied and Integrated Security AISEC. She has also been appointed to the Chair of Software and Systems ...

Online gambling plays an increasing role in addiction counseling in Lower Saxony. In 2025, around six out of ten analyzed counseling cases involved problematic online gambling, compared to just under ...