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From the big bang to the perpetual motion „machine“ *

THE keynote speech: From the big bang to the perpetual motion machine. A marathon & hurdle race, decoding the hitherto unknown 95% of energies. From the big bang to the perpetual motion machine * THE new Model of Universe This lecture is an astronomical breakthrough of the century. Not since Albert Einstein has there been a breakthrough to a new model of the universe. There has not been. Now there is one! The lecture begins with a (previously distributed) red thread overview of the upcoming thought models/stages – and with…

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ACHEMA 2024: Multifaceted lecture programme for the process industry

ACHEMA 2024 will once again fully integrate the lecture and supporting programme with the exhibition. In 2022, ACHEMA integrated the congress and the so-called Innovation Stages into the exhibition for the first time. Due to the positive feedback, the concept will be continued this year. In total, more than 750 presentations await visitors in the lecture halls and on the stages in the exhibition. „Science and Industry in Dialogue has always been DECHEMA’s credo and since the last ACHEMA it has also been a living practice in the lecture and…

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8.5 Mio Euro EU project on Open Web Search launches new third-party calls

Researchers, innovators and computing centres are invited to join the quest for a new Internet Search in Europe OpenWebSearch.EU – a consortium of 14 research partners – is once again calling for third-party project proposals to help building an open and independent Web Index (OWI) based on European values. Researchers, innovators and data centres are invited to submit their ideas until 4th April . Successful candidates can request funding between 50,000 and 150,000 EUR. „We are delighted to have gained six excellent new partners in our first open call in…

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The mass finishing technology refines surfaces gently and efficiently

At the MACH 2024 exhibition Walther Trowal displays its equipment for finishing the surface of high-value components. This versatile technology is equally suitable for deburring, edge radiusing, general cleaning, surface smoothing and high-gloss polishing. In addition, the company presents a centrifuge for eco-friendly cleaning and recycling of the process water. For finishing the surface of small, mass-produced parts Walther Trowal shows a centrifugal disk finishing machine of the model range TT. This so-called „double-batch“ system allows the processing of one work piece batch, while a second work piece batch is…

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One-stop-shopping solutions for the entire wire process chain

Machinery for wire, bar, tube and section production At WIRE 2024, the three EJP companies – EJP Machines, EJP Wire Technology and EJP Tosca Shot Blasting Plants – will be showing their products at a joint stand. With the recent addition of wire drawing lines to their product portfolio, EJP can now supply the full range of production and processing machinery – from the forming stage to surface finishing – for wire, bar, tubes and sections from a single source. The products shown at the trade fair will include a…

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New Rotamat system for coating sealing components for E-vehicles

At the PaintExpo Walther Trowal introduces its new Rotamat R 100 system for coating elastomer sealing components with anti-friction and decorative lacquers. The new coater can handle work piece batches, which are three times bigger than the batches processed in its largest predecessor model. One reason for developing this new machine was that numerous job shop coating companies requested a system that can handle large batches of big, flat sealing components. An important application for the Rotamat systems is the coating of O-rings and flat gaskets, for example, for sealing…

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German scientists report success in antibiotic research

German Researcher at the DSMZ in Braunschweig develops new method for the derivatization of antibiotics Professor Dr Yvonne Mast, Head of the Department of Bioresources for Bioeconomy and Health Research, and her working group at the Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures have developed a new method for the derivatization of antibiotics. Antibiotics are medicinally important compounds often produced by microorganisms. Such natural substances often have a chemically complex structure and hence can be difficult or even impossible to chemically synthesize or modify by means of semi-synthesis.…

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An idea that gets under your skin

StartUp stories: Dr. V. Andrey Gimenez Rivera, founder of IntegraSkin GmbH (Stuttgart/Tübingen) – Dr. V. Andrey Gimenez Rivera founded IntegraSkin GmbH to solve a problem that affects him and at least three-quarters of a billion other people – chronic inflammatory skin conditions (CISC). He is determined to revolutionise dermatological diagnostics by enabling the targeted identification of the molecular disease mechanisms in each individual patient. The founder and researcher gets „under the skin“ of patients, taking a small tissue sample and using innovative molecular-biological methods to derive thousands of disease-relevant parameters…

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Honoured: Markus Göker from the Leibniz Institute DSMZ received the internationally renowned Bergey Award

On the occasion of the fifth BISMiS conference in Guangzhou, China, Associate Professor Dr. Markus Göker recently received the internationally renowned Bergey Award in recognition of his achievements in the field of bacterial taxonomy. Markus Göker has been working at the Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures since 2008. He is the fifth DSMZ scientist to be honoured by the Bergey Trust. Before him, Dr. Hans Hippe (2003), Prof. Dr. Erko Stackebrandt (2009), Prof. Dr. Hans Peter Klenk (2014) and Dr. Peter Schumann (2019) were honoured with…

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Gender gap in prokaryotes: Only 14.8 % of bacteria and archaea named after women

DSMZ researchers analyse names of prokaryotes and find almost no improvement since 1947 In microbiology, microorganisms may be named after well-known scientific personalities to honour them. Such eponyms are common in the natural sciences, such as pasteurisation (after the microbiologist Louis Pasteur). In the recently published study „The gender gap in names of prokaryotes honouring persons“, Dr Heike M. Freese and Associate Professor Dr Markus Göker from the Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH, in collaboration with three other researchers, investigated the origin of the names…

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