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Earth Overshoot Day comes earlier every year. This is the day when we have used up the renewable resources that the earth can regenerate in a year, after which we have to live on credit. While it was ...

Das Gutachten der Expertenkommission Forschung und Innovation (EFI) unterstreicht, wie zentral ein leistungsfähiges Innovationssystem für die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit und Resilienz Deutschlands ist. Entsc ...

Die Fraunhofer-Highlight-Themen stehen für eine perfekte Kombination aus Innovationskraft, technologischer Exzellenz und praxisnaher Umsetzung. Sie treiben die Grenzen moderner ...

Kinder werden meist mit Ultraschall untersucht, um sie vor Strahlenbelastung zu schützen. Forschende des Fraunhofer-Instituts für Produktionstechnik und Automatisierung IPA arbeiten nun an einem Dokum ...

Many patients lose mobility, independence and quality of life due to illness, accidents or old age, and assistive technologies are still not intuitive enough or suitable for everyday use. New ...

Subculturing of a P. gingivalis sample after cultivation for further testing of the active substance. In the laboratory, the bacteria are grown on nutrient medium (agar) in Petri dishes. The oral ...

Counterfeit or low-quality products – such as olive oil made from dyed rape-seed oil – are often difficult or impossible to identify at a glance. A mobile gas chromatography sensor system is now being ...

The PhenoTruck® enables fast and reliable identification of harmful organisms directly on site. Some pests and diseases pose such a serious threat to plants and trees that they have to be prevented ...

In the Clean Aviation project, Fraunhofer researchers teamed up with partners to develop a system that causes icy spots on aircraft wings to vibrate, removing the ice. This dramatically reduces the ...

In light of the growing demand for energy storage for the energy transition, there is an urgent need for cost-effective, safe and resource-efficient battery technologies. Sodium-ion batteries based on ...