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Girls, Girls, Girls
Roberta-Robot bolts across the table – first forward, then around a corner – just as the earlier programming during the Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften (Long Night of the Sciences) told it to. This night is just over…

Key experiences in the school-lab
Unusual learning places:
Making experiments instead of memorising formulas: Getting children into science and technology works better at unusual places for learning than in a classroom. More importantly: Today‘s little researchers might…

Cash for calculus
A quote attributed to the Greek mathematician an physicist Archimedes reads, “There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied Mathematics.“ The others are the ones studying it: at the…

A secondary school for science city
Summer schools, student labs, Research Days – universities, companies and research institutes come up with manys things to get young people into science. But, there was one thing missing: the science park’s own…

Playground for science and technologie
Many biographies of scientists show us that a fascination for science or technology is usually sparked in early childhood. Such interests are developed already at an early stage and especially young children have a…

The learning factory
„A child is like a scientist. They create tasks for themselves and search for solutions. They are able to learn by themselves.“ The kindergarten „Campus Adlershof“, which opened last year in November, lives by this…
SQI Diagnostics to Acquire Scienion AG, a leader in microarray manufacturing
Scienion AG, a German-based microarray manufacturing equipment and microarray print and development services company today announced that it has entered into an agreement to be acquired by SQI Diagnostics Inc. (“SQI”…

Forth Dimension Displays introduce Replicating Reality™ to Japan at IVR Expo
Definitely one to watch in consumer entertainment...:
Forth Dimensions Displays (ForthDD) is to exhibit at this year’s IVR 3D and Virtual Reality Expo, which will be held from June 22-24, at Tokyo International Exhibition Center (Tokyo Big Sight). At the expo, ForthDD…
Vive la France – LUM permanently in Paris, too
LUM opens an application laboratory in Paris in collaboration with ACIL :
In collaboration with the French company ACIL Sarl, LUM GmbH, Germany, opens an application laboratory in Paris. With immediate effect all French customers and interested parties are kindly invited to get latest …
FP7 Project NEREIDS
European Collaborative Project for Maritime Surveillance:
After a long negotiation with the European Commission the FP7 collaborative project NEREIDS started on 1st June, 2011. Under the topic - Contributing to the \"S\" in GMES - Developing pre-operational service…
Meiningen City Council takes emergency power supply from Heliocentris into operation
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The Meiningen City Council took the new emergency power supply based on the Nexa 1200 fuel cell system from Heliocentris Energy Solutions AG into operation earlier this week. This ensures the emergency power supply to…

Early detection of black skin cancer
Successful test of a completely new, sensitive method; avoidance of needless excisions:
Black skin cancer (malignant melanoma) results from degeneration of pigment cells (melanocytes). There is continuous increase in the rate of new diseases. Due to early induction of metastases via lymph- or…
The Long Night of the Sciences
On 28 May 2011:
On 28 May 2011 WISTA-MANAGEMENT GmbH will play host to the annual Long Night of the Sciences for the 11th time. Adlershof con.vent. will also play a special role this time. In the large hall in the new center of…
Heliocentris completes equity issue
Gross proceeds of EUR 1.6 million:
Heliocentris Energy Solutions AG, a leading specialist in clean energy storage solutions, has successfully completed its capital increase in exchange for cash from authorised capital without shareholder subscription…

Adlershof Special 18: Analytics
Fast, mobile, precise – the new analytics:
Immersing into Processes: Modern analytical methods in bioanalytics // When the testers are tested: Accreditation for Adlershof companies and institutions // Sweating alcohol from carbon dioxide: Cyano Biofuels does…

The unsung Science Hero
By Marcus Bauser, Head of Medical Chemistry Analytics, Bayer HealthCare Berlin:
Analytics is undoubtedly the secret star of natural sciences: it is so rarely in the limelight. This does not, however, mean that it is not immensely important. Without analytics, many things would be impossible. This…

When the testers are tested
Accreditation for Adlershof companies and institutions:
“Accreditation is always a competitive advantage,” explained Professor Jürgen Leonhardt, head of the Adlershof based Institut für Umwelttechnologien (IUT) GmbH. Leonhardt’s company has verifi ed in the form of…

Immersing into Processes
Modern analytical methods in bioanalytics:
Whether the inside of cells or haze in the atmosphere, modern analytical methods depict images of worlds both inside and around us. And these methods are gaining in precision and speed. “Without analytical chemistry…

Sweating alcohol from carbon dioxide
Cyano Biofuels does commercial manufacture of algae based biofuel:
When the US company Algenol first knocked on the doors of Cyano Biotech with a proposal for the commercial manufacture of algae based biofuel, Dan Kramer found the idea to be “absurd”. Today, the molecular biologist…

Searching for traces in a new light
ISAS and Analytik Jena enrich chemical research with analysis devices:
When the top US firm Perkin Elmer withdrew in 2001 from its location in Überlingen by Lake Constance, the industrial experts for instrumental analytics in South Germany and the spectroscopy specialists at today’s…