Topic: Germany
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, 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 ...
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 ...
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 Europe have ...
LONDON (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 ...
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, ...
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