News on Germany

Keen video-gamers' brains may reward them more

2011-11-15T23:30:11Z

LONDON (Reuters) - Teenagers who spend a lot of time on video-games have different structures and activity levels in areas of the brain that are linked to reward, scientists have found, suggesting they get more out of gaming than people who tend to play less.

In a study published in the Translational Psychiatry journal on Tuesday, researchers analyzed MRI scans of more than 150 14-year-olds ...

Scientists crack Black Death's genetic code

2011-10-12T10:30:28Z

LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have mapped out the entire genetic map of the Black Death, a 14th century bubonic plague that killed 50 million Europeans in one of the most devastating epidemics in history.

The work, which involved extracting and purifying DNA from the remains of Black death victims buried in London's "plague pits...

Berlin Wall makes comeback for tourists

2011-08-09T05:09:38Z

BERLIN (Reuters) - The Berlin Wall is making a comeback. A half century after it was built and two decades after its demise, a few bits of the Wall that once split Berlin into East and West are being reinstated for posterity to the delight of tourists seeking a glimpse of the city'...

Deadly German E. coli outbreak is over: authorities

2011-07-26T15:30:34Z

An E.coli outbreak in Germany that killed more than 50 people this year has ended, health authorities said Tuesday.

The Robert Koch Institute, Germany's national disease control centre, said that the last new case of enterohaemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) was recorded three weeks ago, which covers the illness's incubation period.

"As the RKI has not ...

Kitchen robots learn to be more human

2011-07-01T07:30:21Z

MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) - For your average robot, chess may be easy compared to simple everyday activities like frying a sausage, but that may be about to change thanks to software being developed by scientists in Germany.

Researchers at the Technical University in Munich are using comple...

Germany's kitchen robots learn to be more human

2011-07-01T05:00:13Z

Researchers at the Technical University in Munich are using complex algorithms ...

Scientists find genes linked to migraines

2011-06-12T15:30:18Z

Scientists have uncovered a trio of genes tied to migraine headaches, including one in which the link is exclusive to women, according to a study published Sunday.

Migraines are acutely debilitating headaches -- sometimes with an "aura", in which patients have the impression of seeing through frosted glass -- that strike up to 20 percent of the population.

Scientists describe the condition, which is three to four times more common in women, as a brain disorder in which neuron...

Rate of German E.coli cases slows, tests inconclusive

2011-06-07T07:30:22Z

HAMBURG, Germany (Reuters) - The rate of infection from a deadly new strain of E.coli is slowing, but scientists are no nearer to proving organic bean sprouts caused the outbreak that has killed 23 people, Germany said on Tuesday.

Farmers across Reuters) - Superfast machines helped Chinese and German scientists decode the genes of Europe's deadly E.coli strain with astonishing speed -- but on the front line in the war with bacteria, old-fashioned detective work is what counts.

Finding the source of the infection that has killed 17 people will require laborious on-the-g...

Europe trades barbs over origin of killer bacteria

2011-06-02T10:30:38Z

Russia banned European vegetable imports on Thursday as Britain reported an outbreak of the mysterious lethal bacteria that has killed 18, mainly in Germany, and Spain demanded a payback for its farmers.

German authorities have failed to pinpoint the origin of the outbreak, which has infected ...

E.coli outbreak in Europe caused by new toxic strain

2011-06-02T05:00:12Z

HONG KONG (Reuters) - The E. coli epidemic in Europe is caused by a new, highly infectious and toxic strain of bacteria that carries genes giving it resistance to a few classes of antibiotics, Chinese scientists who analyzed the organism said.

The scientists at the

Berlin moves from capital of cool to start-up haven

2011-04-10T20:30:13Z

Already a magnet for tourists and young artists, Berlin is attracting a new generation of Internet start-ups, changing the ways scientists interact or musicians store and share music.

So much so that US Internet giant Google is preparing to open a research centre in the German capital.

Based in the top floors of an anonymous building ...

German scientists eye Afghan Buddha reconstruction

2011-02-25T14:31:04Z

German scientists said Friday they believed it possible to reconstruct one of the world-famous Bamiyan Buddhas dynamited by the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001, prompting worldwide condemnation.

Scientists from the University of Munich

Memories take hold better during sleep: study

2011-01-23T18:30:23Z

The best way to not forget a newly learned poem, card trick or algebra equation may be to take a quick nap, scientists surprised by their own findings reported.

In experiments, researchers in Germany showed that the brain is better during sleep than during wakefulness at resisting attempts to scramble or corrupt a recent memory.

Their study, published in Nature Neuroscience, provides new insights into the hugely compl...

Acupuncture Really Does Help Relieve Pain: Study

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Video: Elephant-Trunk-Inspired Robot Arm Grabs With Sensitivity

2010-11-29T14:47:17Z

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Dark energy detector built before your eyes

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Just found: The planet from another galaxy

2010-11-18T15:30:41Z

Researchers identify new planet, first found to have originated in another galaxy

Scientists have discovered the first planet from another galaxy, sort of.

While some 500 planets have been identified in other parts of our galaxy — the Milky Way — none has been reported in other galaxies.

Now one has been discovered orbiting a star called HIP 13044, located about 2,000 light year away. While ...

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New Planet Found Outside Galaxy

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Historical background

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Peter Joseph William Debye

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Irving Langmuir

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Adolf Friedrich Butenandt

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Albrecht Kossel

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Cadmium

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Planetarium

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Otto Fritz Meyerhof

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Gunther Siegmund Stent

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Eric Francis Wieschaus

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How Zebrafish Mend a Broken Heart

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Sea Scorpion

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Prussian blue

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Tilidine

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First European farmers were Middle Eastern

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Mendeleyevs periodic law

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Albert Einstein's youth

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Timeline of the Manhattan Project

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Lessons we have learned from the history of space

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Chemistry of pottery: Glazes

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An overview about the chemical element Protactinium

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Using Frozen Animal Sperm to Repopulate the Wild

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Environmental hazards: Mold

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The most signficant schools of psychological thought between the 19th and mid 20th centuries

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Characteristics of the "intellectual" in modern society

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Travel guide: Magdeburg, Germany

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Biography: Robert Koch

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Defining a mole

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Facts about the extinct Efraasia

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Human, Neanderthal brains only differ after birth: study

2010-11-08T13:00:35Z

Brains of newborn human babies and Neanderthals, who became extinct about 28,000 years ago, were about the same size and appear almost identical at first, said the research which appeared in the journal Current Biology.

But after birth and particularly during the first year of life the differences in development are stark, said lead author Phillipp Gunz of the BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Imagine a child sitting in his classroom, gazing through the window at the rain. He picks up his pencil and chews distractedly on the eraser at its top. Chemicals, classed in Europe as "toxic to reproduction," dissolve in his saliva and enter his body.

It's a scenario...

nuro scince

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Alternatives to Antibiotics

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Female Mathematicians

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Receive Anti-Aging Benefits with Exercise

2010-11-02T21:44:07Z

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Criticism of Fiction in Knowledge

2010-11-02T18:32:16Z

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A Look at Protein for Rottweiler Puppies

2010-11-02T23:44:42Z

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Science: How Is A Kilogram Really Defined?

2010-11-02T18:52:01Z

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Diggin' For Dinosaurs - Berlin-Ichthyosaur

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Arginine Alpha-Ketoglutarate - Part 2 - First Supplement Usage

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Small Step for a Snail, Giant Leap for Snailkind

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Recent winners of Nobel Prize in physics

2010-10-05T03:15:35Z

Recent winners of the Nobel Prize in physics through 2010

Recent winners of the Nobel Prize in physics, and their research, according to the Nobel Foundation:

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_ 2010: Russian-born scientists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov for "groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene."

_ 2009: British-American <...

Disgraced Physicist Can Keep His Degree

2010-09-29T20:45:47Z

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Particle Acceleration on Megaparsec Scales in a Merging Galaxy Cluster

2010-09-23T12:35:53Z

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Focus on Germany

2010-09-23T12:35:42Z

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Ras Radio Waves

2010-09-23T08:03:54Z

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UK scientists plan petitions and protests against cuts

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Scholarly cultural and literary magazines

2010-09-21T17:53:30Z

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Fast Vesicle Fusion in Living Cells Requires at Least Three SNARE Complexes

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German book channels public's immigrant angst

2010-09-15T07:00:05Z

Banker-turned-author breaks taboos, channels growing public frustration over immigrants

Thilo Sarrazin was a board member of Germany's august central bank until he wrote a book claiming German society was being made "dumber" by Muslim immigrants. It's a runaway best-seller, but has cost him his job.

By suggesting that Muslims' inability, or unwillingness, to speak German may be linked to...

What is the Millenium Simulation?

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What is Vinpocetine?

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What Is Anhydrite?

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What is Cerium?

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Geography of Gottingen

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Single Atom Acts as a Transistor for Photons

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Is altruism a genetic trait?

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First Genetic Link Found for Common Migraine

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Study finds first genetic link to common migraine

2010-08-30T05:00:11Z

LONDON (Reuters) - An international scientific team has identified for the first time a genetic risk factor associated with common migraines and say their research could open the way for new treatments to prevent migraine attacks.

Researchers who looked at genetic data from 50,000 people from Finland, Germany, on Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011. (AP Photo/dapd, Daniel Kopatsch)

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Australia Flooding

2011-01-05T08:06:21Z

In this photo released by the Northern Territory Police, four German tourists rest on the roof of their vehicle as they wait for their rescue from the flooded Magela Creek, near Jabiru, Australia, Monday, Jan. 3, 2011. Drenching rain that started before Christmas has flooded an area the size of France and Sweden, center, is flanked ond the podium by second placed Tina Maze of Slovenia, left, and third placed Austrian Elisabeth Goergl after an alpine skiing parallel slalom World Cup race held in Munich, southern

Germany New Year Preparations

2010-12-30T21:31:31Z

Workers run a cable over the street in preparation for the New Year's celebrations in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to celebrate the beginning of the New Year 2011 at the famous landma...

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2010-12-28T12:30:30Z

FILE - In this June 27, 2010 file combination of six photos, Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer looks at the ball that hit the bar, bounce over the line during the World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Germany and England at F...