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BMBF providing €20 million to fund robotics in Germany-University of Bonn heavily involved Some of the country's leading centers for robotics have joined forces and set up a consortium to develop the

Compression standard for haptics published What JPEG, MP3 and MPEG are for images, audio and video, haptic codecs are for transmitting the sense of touch via the Internet.

A Czech-Bavarian research team is developing an artificial intelligence that specialises in gastroscopy.

The black hole already weighed a billion solar masses when the universe was still in its infancy The James Webb Space Telescope observed a galaxy in a particularly young stage of the universe.

In her doctoral thesis, Dr Berta Canal investigated the effects of heat on the reproductive capacity of fruit flies Dr Berta Canal recently completed her doctoral thesis at the Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity (IEB) at the University of Münster that examined the effects of heat stress on the reproductive capacity of fruit flies ( Drosophila ).

The 4-day week can, if tailored specifically to a company, make the organization more flexible and at the same time strengthen the employees - this is the most important finding from the pilot test that has just been completed in two Thuringian companies.

New, more precise 3D reconstructions for autonomous driving and preservation of cultural artefacts Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have succeeded in generating precise 3D reconstructions of objects using images from only two camera perspectives.

Victory against the Bund Naturschutz lawsuit The Bavarian Administrative Court has confirmed the legality of the operation of the FRM II research reactor.

Liberal societies are under pressure worldwide: internally eroded by right-wing populist electoral victories and growing economic inequality, externally challenged by the power play of autocratic governments.

A large city's sewage contains a huge variety of bacteria, viruses, fungi, and other microscopic organisms.

PISA study The creative thinking ability of 15-year-olds in Germany corresponds to the OECD average.

Procrastination, the deliberate but detrimental deferring of tasks, has many forms. Sahiti Chebolu of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics uses a precise mathematical framework to understand its different patterns and their underlying reasons.

"Young Researcher Days" at TU Ilmenau: For a whole month, young adults from the 10th grade onwards have the opportunity to immerse themselves in the world of science and technology.

RWTH has been exploring alternatives to the use of herbicides on railroad tracks - first results were now presented in a live demonstration. On behalf of the German Center for Rail Transport Research (DZFS) at the German Federal Railway Authority, the Institute for Rail Vehicles and Transport Systems (IfS) and the Institute of Plant Physiology (iPP) at RWTH have been researching alternatives to the use of plant toxins such as glyphosate on railway tracks.