Even the super-rich and the super-powerful can’t have it all their own way: Erich Honecker experienced it in the GDR in 1989 and dictator Assad in Syria in 2024. And before that, Stalin, Hitler, ...

The Greenland Ice Sheet is cracking open more rapidly as it responds to climate change. Dr Tom Chudley, in our Department of Geography, led a new large-scale study of crevasses – wedge-shaped ...

Scientists have long sought to understand the exact mechanism behind water splitting by carbon nitride catalysts. For the first time, Dr. Paolo Giusto and his team captured the step-by-step ...

After the deadly knife attack by a mentally ill person in Aschaffenburg, the lack of cooperation between the police and the judiciary should have been discussed in this country – as it was after the ...

Nano-cages made of linalool and sulfur increase the service life and storage capacity of sodium-sulfur batteries. Lavender oil could help solve a problem in the energy transition. A team from the Max ...

Highly efficient solid-state heat pumps without compressors – that is the vision of Fraunhofer researchers. With the recent completion of the ElKaWe research project, they took a big step towards ...

An international research team has concluded that the Sikkim flood disaster in the Himalayas in October 2023 was caused by some 14.7 million cubic meters of frozen moraine material collapsing into ...

A battery that needs feeding instead of charging? This is exactly what Empa researchers have achieved with their 3D-printed, biodegradable fungal battery. The living battery could supply power to ...

Research on climate policy is growing exponentially. Of the approximately 85,000 individual studies ever published on policy ...