The Environmental Impact of Generative AI: A Growing Concern

In recent years, the intersection of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and climate change has raised significant concerns within the scientific community and beyond. As we approach 2025, the implications of AI on the environment are becoming increasingly evident, particularly highlighted by...

Orangutan Demonstrates Self-Medication Using Medicinal Plant for Wound Treatment

When faced with minor injuries like a cut finger, many of us resort to self-treatment before seeking medical assistance....

Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Munich Researcher and Colleagues

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This year's Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three researchers, including Ferenc Krausz, the Director of the Max...

Erbium Dopants Stimulated to Emit Single Photons

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have made...

Online trials - when the avatar negotiates

Online court hearings are becoming increasingly important. Since the Corona crisis, courts have been increasingly working...

Italy bans laboratory meat

Italians have an intimate relationship with their agriculture, which is known to produce many good foods. Farm animals are...

2022 was one of the two warmest years on record

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According to the German Weather Service (DWD), Germany experienced an "exceptional weather year" in 2022. According to the...

Europe's first ecosystem with its own rights

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The largest saltwater lagoon in the western Mediterranean is threatened with ecological collapse. Intensive agriculture is...

Climate protection: great goals, but no way to get there

Helmut Kohl already knew how to make politics with climate targets. In 1995, shortly before a UN climate conference in...

Cause of mass death of bald eagles discovered

With criminalistic flair, researchers have solved the mystery surrounding the mysterious mass death of bald eagles in the...

Climate fight looks to CO2 storage

On the roof of the waste incineration plant in Hinwil near Zurich, the air is as low in carbon dioxide as it was before...
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In 2023, We Became Lost in Neverland on Climate Change

This year, the UN, governments and even some scientists lost their collective minds on climate change. In July,...
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TUM Research Aims to Reduce Antibiotic Use in Poultry Farming

Julia Steinhoff-Wagner, a Professor of Animal Nutrition and Metabolism at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), is...
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Breakthrough Discovery Unlocks Potential for Highly Sensitive Sensors

The world of electronic devices is on the brink of a revolution in sensor technology as scientists at the Technical...
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Quantum-Safe Data Encryption: Researchers at TUM Take on NIST Challenge

As the world advances technologically, our reliance on the internet for daily tasks grows stronger. From online shopping...

Europe's largest aerospace campus set for Munich

The largest aerospace campus in Europe will be established in Taufkirchen and Ottobrunn, located in the southern part of...

New method improves measurement of brain activity

Measuring the activity of the human brain on a cell-by-cell basis was previously only possible to a very limited extent....
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From IceCube to Milky Way

For the first time, the scientists of the international IceCube Collaboration have succeeded in detecting neutrinos from...
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Cure for age-related blindness on horizon

Life Biosciences, a biotechnology company developing innovative cellular rejuvenation techniques to reverse aging and...

CO2 now stored in the Danish North Sea

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...
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Google discovers security gaps in smartphones

Small chips, big security holes: A security team from the Internet company Google has found serious vulnerabilities in...
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EU wants to tighten emissions trading

Consumers and companies in the EU will have to pay more frequently for carbon dioxide (CO?) emissions in the future....

Test flight for NASA "Artemis" moon mission launched

After months of postponements, the crisis-ridden NASA lunar mission "Artemis 1" departed on Wednesday for a first test...

Google reduces the error rate of its quantum computer

Nobody's perfect - this is especially true for Google's quantum computer "Sycamore," which two years ago was able to solve...

Healthy reefs survive coral bleaching from heat waves

Relatively recently, a heat wave in the southern summer of 2016/2017 triggered coral bleaching with devastating damage...

Horses and donkeys revive a desert biotope

A few feral horses and donkeys scratch the sand with their hooves in the Mojave Desert until they reach the groundwater at...

Pathogens, the invisible historians

Before Covid-19, it was the world's deadliest disease. In 2018, the World Health Organization estimated ten million people...

Mathematical modelling could reduce infection rates

A quick scan of the cell phone display and the long-awaited entrance to a movie theater, a concert, a handball hall, or...

Artificial snow to preserve glaciers

Felix Keller is visibly excited. He doesn't seem to mind the double-digit temperatures at 2100 meters above sea level at...

Mystery solved: The origins of flying dinosaurs

Fossils of pterosaurs, the earliest reptiles to evolve powered flight, were unearthed in the 19th Century but their...

Climate Change and Mathematical Modelling Illusions

For the past three decades, human-caused global warming alarmists have tried to frighten the public with stories of doom...