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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A research team at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI has developed a new sustainable process that can be used to improve the electrochemical performance of lithium-ion batteries. Initial tests of ...

Positive transformations have always existed. Otherwise we would still be living in trees. What is relatively new is the transformation from fire to electricity, from combustion to light. This is the ...

In conventional agriculture, synthetic chemical pesticides are used in various crops such as arable farming, vegetable growing and viticulture. A study by the RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau, ...

New study on the impact of climate extremes on (future) water security. Extreme climate events endanger groundwater quality and stability, when rain water evades natural purification processes in the ...