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Avalanche bulletin and snow situation With global trade not only products travel around the world, but sometimes also uninvited guests - such as fungi that can cause disease in trees.

An artificial intelligence that independently plans, carries out and analyses a complete experiment on an atomic force microscope (AFM): This is exactly what an international team of researchers in India, Denmark and Jena has demonstrated. The AI agent AILA (»Artificially Intelligent Lab Assistant«) calibrates the microscope, selects operating modes, saves and analyses image data-and decides on whether to take a new image if necessary.

UT and medical microbiology laboratory Labmicta are joining forces to optimise laboratory processes with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotisation.

Breast cancer, by far the most common cancer in women, is all the more treatable the earlier it is detected.

The first wiring diagram of every neuron in an adult brain and the 50 million connections between them has been produced for a fruit fly. Brain wiring diagrams are a first step towards understanding everything we're interested in - how we control our movement, answer the telephone, or recognise a friend.

UK researchers have begun designing a new device to detect elusive dark matter particles thought to make up 85% of the mass of the Universe.

The École Polytechnique engineering school, the French national scientific research center CNRS and Safran Electronics & Defense have signed a partnership agreement for a joint laboratory dedicated to the research and development of electric satellite thrusters.

Researchers from the groups of Prof. Herre Van der Zant at TU Delft and Prof. Yara Galvão Gobato at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCAR) have teamed up to explore Van der Waals Heterostructures for Spintronics via a recent SPRINT grant.

51 million euros for TUM Center for Embodied Laboratory Intelligence The Scientific Council has approved the construction of a new research building at the Technical University of Munich (TUM).

Consumer sentiment was essentially unchanged from June, when it had reached an all-time low for the survey, according to the University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers.

France's rising electricity needs, its energy independence and the decarbonisation of its energy mix are all challenges to which nuclear energy can provide a solution.

Do you remember the first time that you used a microscope? Actually, I had one as a child, it was a small toy microscope that you had to put in the sunlight to be able to magnify anything.

Living with your romantic partner? Don't take them for granted. Rather than lavish your partner with jewelry, flowers or an expensive gift to celebrate Valentine's Day, give something that would be equally-and perhaps-even more appreciated by your significant other, especially if they tend to take on more of the household chores: a gift of gratitude.

O    The CNRS is celebrating the creation of its 200th active joint laboratory bringing together the organisation and its academic partners with a company.

All seventeen U.S. national laboratories and many prominent publishers, journals, and other organizations in scientific publishing announced today the beginning of a partnership to support name change requests from researchers on past published papers. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ÜBerkeley Lab) is coordinating the effort.

Experiment: LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) About: LZ is an ultrasensitive detector that is designed to find a theoretical dark matter particle known as the WIMP, or weakly interacting massive particle, by measuring signals in a tank filled with 10 metric tons of liquid xenon.

The 2019 ERC Starting Grant call was aimed at young sesearchers of any nationality with 2-7 years of experience since completion of PhD, a scientific track record showing great promise and an excellent research proposal.

From fibre swelling in paper by way of computer vision to efficient electric auxiliary drives: three new Christian Doppler Laboratories were launched at TU Graz in 2016.

When an explosion occurred in an ETH laboratory in 2012, an ETH member was wearing his normal spectacles instead of safety glasses.