Topic: Germany
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 ...
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 ...
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, in southern Germany, have examined fragments of the statues -- ...
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 ...
Acupuncture alters the way that the brain perceives and processes pain, a finding that suggests the traditional Chinese treatment can effectively relieve pain, according to a new study.. German researchers used functional MRI scans to measure brain activity in 18 people who ...
Germany's Festo is no stranger to robots that mimic animal biology, but its new elephant trunk-inspired robot arm is more concerned with the fragility of human physiology than the strength of the elephant. The arm - known as the Bionic Handling Assistant ...
It took months to build a camera capable of detecting dark energy at Fermilab in Illinois. It will be installed later next year on the Blanco telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. Astronomers suggest a mysterious force called dark ...
Researchers identify new planet, first found to have originated in another galaxyScientists 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 ...
In 2000 an international research team published a molecular analysis of mitochondrial DNA extracted from the rib of an approximately 29,000-year-old Neanderthal infant. Overall, the results supported the out-of-Africa theory for the origin of modern humans rather than the multiregional hypothesis.. Dmanisi, ...
But the newest member of the exoplanet club, dubbed HIP 13044b, was found in a stream of vagrant stars that loop around the Milky Way. The discovery is the first proof astronomers have that planet formation can indeed take place in other ...
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Germany Alpine Skiing World Cup
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