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Aerospace start-up wins award

Aerospace start-up wins award

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

A rocket for a new generation of satellites, remote-controlled trucks and software to calculate CO2 emissions: these are successful products created by the start-ups Isar Aerospace, Fernride and Tanso Technologies. At the TUM Entrepreneurship Day, all three were nominated for the Presidential Entrepreneurship Award. The winner was the aerospace start-up. The 10th Entrepreneurship Day at the Technical University of Munich again brought together entrepreneurs, students, researchers, investors and...

Technological innovations propel sustainable energy solutions

Technological innovations propel sustainable energy solutions

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

In the pursuit of a greener and more sustainable future, technological innovations are playing a pivotal role in revolutionizing the energy sector in Munich. With the city's commitment to environmental conservation and the urgent need to mitigate climate change, companies and researchers in Munich are leveraging cutting-edge technologies to develop and deploy sustainable energy solutions, setting an example for other cities across the globe. One groundbreaking innovation making waves in...

Solar energy expansion for Munich

Solar energy expansion for Munich

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

The City Council's Committee for Climate and Environmental Protection today approved the Munich's solar strategy, which considers the inner-city solar energy expansion schemein a comprehensive way. The strategy aims for extensive photovoltaic (PV) expansion so that around 25 percent of the city's electricity consumption can be covered by inner-city solar systems in the long term. To this end, in a transformation phase up to 2030, PV expansion is to be increased at a growth rate of 40 percent to...

From IceCube to Milky Way

From IceCube to Milky Way

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

For the first time, the scientists of the international IceCube Collaboration have succeeded in detecting neutrinos from the Milky Way. The analysis of ten years of observation data using machine learning methods led to the success for which ORIGINS scientist Elisa Resconi's group at the Technical University of Munich provided important preliminary work. In the next step, the researchers strive to understand from which celestial objects the observed high-energy neutrinos come. The IceCube...

TUM again ranked first in Germany

TUM again ranked first in Germany

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

For the ninth time in a row, TUM is ranked first in Germany in the prestigious QS World University Rankings. It is ranked second in the European Union and 37 overall. International research networks and sustainability standards are now included for the first time in the QS rankings. Surveys of academics and employers are used to compile the university quality rankings produced by the British university service provider QS Quacquarelli Symonds. Additionally, it evaluates the number of times...

Bavarian companies embracing quantum science

Bavarian companies embracing quantum science

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

In order to fully realize the potential of QST, Bavarian businesses are already working with research institutions. Bavaria is fully committed to becoming a major global hub for quantum science and technology. Here are some illustrations of important projects and ongoing corporate initiatives as detailed by Invest in Bavaria.   Facilitating the Mittelstand's (mid-sized companies') access to quantum computing. Many of the large corporations in Bavaria have established their own QST research...

Cure for age-related blindness on horizon

Cure for age-related blindness on horizon

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

Life Biosciences, a biotechnology company developing innovative cellular rejuvenation techniques to reverse aging and injury-related diseases and ultimately restore health to patients, today announced preclinical data in non-human primates (NHP) for its new gene therapy candidate that uses partial epigenetic reprogramming to restore visual function. This approach has been shown to reverse aging in mice, improving vision and extending lifespan, but it was not known whether epigenetic...

Italy bans laboratory meat

Italy bans laboratory meat

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

Italians have an intimate relationship with their agriculture, which is known to produce many good foods. Farm animals are also part of this relationship, albeit a complex one. In the Alpine province of Belluno, for example, citizens can adopt a cow from a cooperative, from which they then receive cheese and butter. On the other hand, as elsewhere, people prefer not to know too much about the specific stages of the food chain, such as what happens in the slaughterhouse or when calves are...

CO2 now stored in the Danish North Sea

CO2 now stored in the Danish North Sea

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

Under the Danish seabed, CO2 from Belgium has been stored at a depth of 1800 meters for a few weeks. It works like this: In a chemical plant in Antwerp, the carbon dioxide produced during production is captured, liquefied, loaded onto a ship tanker and brought to Denmark. There it is pumped deep underground and injected into the sandstone layers of the depleted Nini oil field. This huge CO2 storage facility was built by a consortium led by the British chemical company Ineos and the BASF...

Coffee consumption: researchers discover new effects on brain

Coffee consumption: researchers discover new effects on brain

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

With a per capita consumption of 162 liters per year, coffee is the Germans' absolute favorite beverage. Coffee is not only enjoyed because of its taste. The caffeine it contains makes us feel more alert and concentrated. The caffeine stimulates the heartbeat, as well as the intestinal function and thus has noticeable effects on the body. But coffee consumption has more than just positive effects: As researchers at the University Psychiatric Clinics (UPK) Basel and the University of Basel have...

Google discovers security gaps in smartphones

Google discovers security gaps in smartphones

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

Small chips, big security holes: A security team from the Internet company Google has found serious vulnerabilities in various chips manufactured by Samsung. The so-called Exynos modem chips are responsible for establishing mobile data connections. They are not only installed in Samsung devices, but are also used by other manufacturers, for example in Google's Pixel smartphones or those of the smartphone manufacturer Vivo. Affected devices include the Samsung Galaxy S22 and the Galaxy A71....

2022 was one of the two warmest years on record

2022 was one of the two warmest years on record

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

According to the German Weather Service (DWD), Germany experienced an "exceptional weather year" in 2022. According to the preliminary annual balance, the 2018 temperature record of 10.5 degrees Celsius was at least set. Overall, DWD calculations showed an annual mean temperature of 10.5 degrees Celsius this year. 2022 would thus be 2.3 degrees above the value of the internationally valid reference period 1961 to 1990. Only the final evaluation of all station data in early January will show...

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