From: Deutsche Welle on Mon, Oct 25 2010 1:53 PM

The mission of the GSO is to maintain ties with German academics in the US and Canada, with the aim of recruiting them back to Germany.

From: Deutsche Welle on Mon, Oct 18 2010 10:05 AM

DW-TV That biggest difference therefore seems to be that humans are only better at working together and learning from one another. An expert from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development is here to tell us more — a very warm welcome to Monika Keller. Thank you for joining us here tod...

From: Deutsche Welle on Mon, Oct 11 2010 10:27 PM

Some 300 million people suffer from diabetes world-wide. By 2030, this figure could rise to 435 million. In Germany, many different researchers are working on monitoring the causes of diabetes and how the disease does its damage.We’ll tell you about the work being done by researchers at the Tech...

From: Deutsche Welle on Mon, Oct 04 2010 8:03 PM

"I think we can be pretty sure the robots won’t outsmart us within the next 10 or 20 years. At least our robots - they run out of batteries within 30 minutes."DW-TV: Miss Hafner, you are doing research on robots, on artificial intelligence ... now, it really seems like fun, moving the little rob...

From: Deutsche Welle on Mon, Oct 04 2010 8:03 PM

A new age is beginning in astronomy. The world’s largest radio telescope, ALMA, is being built at an altitude of 5000 meters above sea level. It consists of some 66 high-tech antennas.The ambitious project demands top-flight precision technology. All the antennas must have exactly the s...

From: Deutsche Welle on Mon, Sep 20 2010 9:19 AM

Thorsten Mauritsen is a climate researcher from Denmark. He works at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, where he’s studying the effects of climate change in the Arctic.He's trying to find out why global warming is moving at a faster pace in the Arctic than anywhere else in...

From: Deutsche Welle on Mon, Aug 23 2010 4:27 PM

"I think we can be pretty sure the robots won’t outsmart us within the next 10 or 20 years. At least our robots - they run out of batteries within 30 minutes."DW-TV: Miss Hafner, you are doing research on robots, on artificial intelligence ... now, it really seems like fun, moving the little rob...

From: Deutsche Welle on Mon, Aug 23 2010 4:25 PM

What is robotics?Setiawan Kartawidjaja from Bandung wants to know: What is robotics?

From: Deutsche Welle on Mon, Aug 23 2010 4:24 PM

A new age is beginning in astronomy. The world’s largest radio telescope, ALMA, is being built at an altitude of 5000 meters above sea level. It consists of some 66 high-tech antennas.The ambitious project demands top-flight precision technology. All the antennas must have exactly the s...

From: Deutsche Welle on Mon, Aug 23 2010 4:23 PM

Nilesh Mankoo from Vacoas, Mauritius, wants to know: What is gravity?

From: Deutsche Welle on Mon, Aug 23 2010 4:22 PM

"We have a lot of it, green energy from a number of sources, we have hydroelectric energy, which is just at the beginning of it, and geothermal ,which comes next to that and all and all, we’re using a lot of green sources for our energy."DW-TV: What an energetic paradise here on Iceland. Energy ...

From: Deutsche Welle on Mon, Aug 23 2010 4:21 PM

One of the researchers at the Universe excellence cluster is Andreas Burkert. He studied physics and astronomy in Munich and is today one of the cluster’s two directors. He and his team develop computer programs that replicate the growth of entire galaxies - a process that in reality takes billio...

From: Deutsche Welle on Mon, Aug 23 2010 4:21 PM

>>Researchers and engineers from the German project ISUP (Integrated Systems for Underwater Production of Hydrocarbons) plan to employ robots to tap into deep sea oil reserves. Remote-controlled robotic arms will be used to build the platform underwater. A pump will transport the oil through a pi...

From: Deutsche Welle on Mon, Aug 23 2010 4:20 PM

Udo Buchholz is epidemiologist at the Germany’s Robert Koch Institute. That's the country's central governmental institute for disease prevention and control. DW-TV: Mr. Buchholz, usually the very old and the very young are at risk from influenza. Why were young and middle-aged people...

From: Deutsche Welle on Mon, Aug 23 2010 4:20 PM

>>DW-TV: Jörg Fritz, How much damage could a space rock of a small size do? Jörg Fritz: Well, a rock of a small size wouldn’t do too much damage unless it just falls on your head, or on your car - but if you had it on your car, maybe, the price of your car would increase, actually. ...

From: Deutsche Welle on Mon, Aug 23 2010 4:19 PM

Thomas Walter is geologist and volkanologist at the German Research Center for Geosciences in PotsdamIngolf Baur: How high is the risk that neighboring volcanoes will also erupt on Iceland? Thomas Walter: Yes, indeed - we know that the last two historic eruptions at Eyjafjallajökull were fol...

From: Deutsche Welle on Mon, Aug 23 2010 4:18 PM

Marine researchers Ursula Röhl and Alex Wülbers are investigating what the ocean floor has to tell us about the climate in the past. In this report they tell about a challenging expedition to the Arctic.There, where the once supposedly “eternal ice cap“ has begun to disappear, drillings are now ...

From: Deutsche Welle on Mon, Aug 23 2010 4:16 PM

The Very Large Telescope, or VLT, is the biggest of its kind in the world. It is located in Cerro Paranal in Chile, where the air is extremely dry. Its sights are directed towards the depths of space, but dust is blurring the telescope’s vision.The scientists who maintain the telescope say that ...

From: Deutsche Welle on Mon, Aug 23 2010 4:15 PM

>>Researchers and engineers from the German project ISUP (Integrated Systems for Underwater Production of Hydrocarbons) plan to employ robots to tap into deep sea oil reserves. Remote-controlled robotic arms will be used to build the platform underwater. A pump will transport the oil through a pi...

From: Deutsche Welle on Mon, Aug 23 2010 4:14 PM

Why is human DNA double-stranded? Report by Wolf Gebhardt (DW)