Researchers infer a person's intention to grasp from forearm muscle activity. - A patient with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) learned to grasp objects again. - Prof. Gordon Cheng's goal is to ...

The robot football team from the Leipzig University of Applied Sciences (HTWK Leipzig) finished this year’s RoboCup World Cup in Incheon, South Korea, as runners-up: after a strong tournament, the ...

The research team employs the two-color radiation of the unique in-house IR free-electron laser (IR-FEL) to control the population of different molecular conformations. - Fundamental insight: It is ...

Perspective article shows how university teaching can foster responsible engagement with societal challenges Enabling people to reflect critically on societal changes and participate in meeting major ...

MOF thin films, as porous materials, play a key role in many potential applications. Researchers at TU Graz have now demonstrated that the prototypical example for thin films has a completely ...

In the Semiconductor-X project, funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWE), an industry consortium led by Intel, Infineon, Siemens, SAP and Bosch is developing a ...

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have the potential to significantly influence political debates. This suggests a new study by researchers from the University of Passau.

Millions of women worldwide suffer from vaginal yeast infections. These infections are most commonly caused by the fungus Candida albicans and can lead to symptoms ranging from itching and burning to ...

The expansion of renewable energy is a cornerstone of climate policy. While wind energy is widely supported in principle, people living near wind turbines often experience the local consequences of ...

The Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald is awarding up to six Alfried Krupp Senior Fellowships and up to eight Alfried Krupp Junior Fellowships for the 2027/2028 academic year.

In the new PADSE (Person-Centric Audio- and Speech-basedeepfake and Shallowfake Detection) research project, Fraunhofer IDMT Ilmenau, Deutsche Welle, and Bauhaus-Universität Weimar are developing ...

Carpenter ants amputate the injured legs of fellow ants to minimise the risk of infection. A new study involving a Würzburg researcher shows that this task is primarily carried out by ants switching ...