• New keyboard for touchscreens

4/18/13

Computer scientists design new keyboard layout on touch screen devices The research team of Antti Oulasvirta at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics has created a new keyboard called KALQ that enables faster thumb-typing on touchscreen devices. They used computational optimization techniques ...

• DESY and the University of Hamburg inaugurate Wolfgang Pauli Centre for theoretical physics

4/18/13

DESY and the University of Hamburg have jointly inaugurated the Wolfgang Pauli Centre (WPC) for theoretical physics on Wednesday in Hamburg. The centre will promote and expand the joint research activities. "Hamburg is a beacon of theoretical physics with international radiance," emphasised the ...

• New Membrane Process: Geesthacht Researchers provide the desired polymer

4/18/13

Dr. Sofia Rangou, polymer scientist in Geesthacht, has succeeded in synthesizing the required starting product for a new process which has been developed by the University of Yale (USA) for the production of ultrathin membrane films from block copolymers. The highly-respected journal ACS-Nano ...

• German–French Master's and doctoral degree programme

4/17/13

Funding approved for the Bielefeld and Paris I Universities programme As the German–French Chamber of Industry and Commerce announced in February, France is once again Germany’s most important trading partner in 2012. It is only appropriate that Bielefeld University and University of Paris I are ...

• Scientists Measure X-ray Laser's Heartbeat

4/17/13

Ultrafast stopwatch determines duration of femtosecond FLASH pulses Many fundamental processes in nature, including certain chemical and biological reactions, occur on very small timescales. Researchers have been dreaming of the opportunity to film these fast processes in real time and to ...

• How Plants Sense Dry Air

4/17/13

If the ambient air is very dry, plants need to protect themselves against excessive loss of water. For this purpose, they close special pores in their leaves. University of Würzburg researchers have explored how plants sense changes in humidity and translate this information into a signal. ...

• Systems for international crisis management

4/16/13

ISCRAM 2013 International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management in the Kongresshaus Baden-Baden At the ISCRAM 2013 in Baden-Baden, from 12 to 15 May, scientists, practitioners, and representatives of relief and crisis management organizations will discuss new ...

• Leopoldina strengthens cooperation with French national academy

4/16/13

The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the French Académie des sciences are set to collaborate even more closely in future. Today in Paris, Leopoldina President, Prof. Jörg Hacker, and the President of the French national academy, Prof. Phillipe Taquet, signed a cooperation ...

• Molecule-specific diagnosis of metabolic diseases

4/16/13

Lysosomal storage diseases (LSDs) are a group of rare inherited metabolic diseases that are difficult to diagnose due to their rather unspecific clinical signs. In cooperation with the company Centogene AG, Prof. Dr. Michael Przybylski from the Steinbeis Transfer Center for Biopolymer Analysis ...

• JGU adopts Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities

4/15/13

Clear statement of commitment to open access / Publication fund totaling EUR 85,000 available Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has adopted the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities. University President Professor Dr. Georg Krausch signed the ...