From: Deutsche Welle on Mon, Aug 23 2010 4:14 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 4:13 PM

Report by Mabel Gundlach Tomorrow Today introduces up and coming scientists from around the world living and working in Germany in the series: Brilliant MindsSergio Amancio is researching secure methods of connecting materials. That is of great importance, especially in aviation. Dangerous crac...

From: Deutsche Welle on Mon, Aug 23 2010 4:13 PM

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, Aug 23 2010 4:12 PM

Susanne Rotter is professor and recycling expert at the technical university here in Berlin. We talk about recycling and extracting valuable minerals from our trash.DW-TV: Extracting minerals from metals is a long and somewhat tedious process, and requires lots of technology. Is it wor...

From: Deutsche Welle on Mon, Aug 23 2010 4:12 PM

The oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has given researcher Antje Boetius a unique opportunity: the microbiologist from Bremen is studying a special kind of oil-eating bacteria that live on the sea bed and consume the crude oil that lands there.Boetius is trying to find out how these bacter...

From: Deutsche Welle on Mon, Aug 23 2010 4:11 PM

Ingolf Baur: "Joining us in the studio is Dr. Birger-Gottfried Lühr from the German Research Center for Geosciences in Potsdam. He is an expert on earthquake risk assessment and early warning systems. What do you think, is there a chance to predict earthquakes by studying ants? Dr. Birger-Gottf...

From: Deutsche Welle on Mon, Aug 23 2010 4:10 PM

Our studio guest this week is Prof. Gert Wörheide, Munich University. He will present new knowledge on a completely overlooked and unique marine biodiversity and new genetic resources to promote a further understanding of ecology. DW-TV: One of principle investigators conducting the ...

From: Deutsche Welle on Mon, Aug 23 2010 4:09 PM

Report by Patrick Benning Gene therapies, cancer treatment, personalized medicine: more than 100 partners from the research, medical and business sectors have joined forces a research cluster centered in the central German city of Heidelberg.The BioRN Cluster hopes to speed up the transformati...

From: Deutsche Welle on Mon, Aug 23 2010 4:08 PM

Research on the brain is one of the scientific fields considered likely to earn Nobel Prizes in the near future. A promising area is the theme of brain-computer interfaces. Many research groups around the world are competing to find a way to that goal. John-Dylan Haynes of the Bernstein Center fo...

From: Deutsche Welle on Mon, Aug 23 2010 4:07 PM

Nicole Ottawa and Oliver Meckes examine the world through a microscope. Ottawa, a biologist and Meckes, a photographer have teamed up to bring images of microscopic worlds to a large audience.To achieve this, they have photographed crystals and pollen, viruses and fungi, and pores on the skin an...

From: Deutsche Welle on Mon, Aug 23 2010 4:07 PM

Our studio guest is Prof. Holger Weiß, of the Helmholtz Center for Environmental ResearchAnd here to tell us more about the different methods currently being used for groundwater remediation is an expert from Germany’s Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research, Holger Weiss. You are working on...

From: Deutsche Welle on Sun, Aug 08 2010 10:50 PM

>>Die Forscher und Ingenieuren des deutschen ISUP-Projektes wollen Erdöl aus der Tiefsee mit Hilfe von Robotern fördern. Ferngesteuerte Greifarme bauen die Plattform unter Wasser zusammen, eine Pumpe transportiert das Öl durch Leitungen am Meeresboden zur Verarbeitungsanlage an Land. F...

From: Deutsche Welle on Mon, Aug 02 2010 10:47 PM

"The eruption there was quite unexpected, but still there had been indications for almost ten years of something happening."DW-TV: The view from up here to the volcano Eyjafjallajökull is just perfect. But this must be a very special situation for a for a geologist. Sigurdur Steintho...

From: Deutsche Welle on Mon, Aug 02 2010 10:46 PM

Scientists are trying to find out how much of a threat volcanic ash poses to jet engines and aircraft wind screens. Little was known about these issues when the Eyjafjallajökull volcano erupted in April 2010, grounding planes at airports across Europe.Researchers want to assess the damage the s...

From: Deutsche Welle on Mon, Aug 02 2010 10:46 PM

There are few places on the globe where the earth near the surface is as warm as it is in Iceland. That has left the country able to generate at least 20 percent of its electricity with geothermal energy.A scientist from Darmstadt is currently in Iceland trying to find out what geological conditi...

From: Deutsche Welle on Mon, Aug 02 2010 10:46 PM

Volcanic activity created the island of Iceland and volcanoes still dominate its landscape. The country has more than 30 active volcanic systems, and plenty of researchers who are investigating them.One of the scientists is Sigrún Hreinsdóttir, a geophysicist at the University of Iceland. By usi...

From: Deutsche Welle on Mon, Aug 02 2010 10:46 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 02 2010 10:45 PM

Wissenschaftler aus Dresden und Cottbus untersuchen, wie gefährlich Vulkanasche für Triebwerke und Cockpitscheiben ist... >>Denn darüber ist wenig bekannt, Folge war ein Flugverbot in Europa, als der Eyjafjallajökull im April große Aschemengen ausstieß. Die Forscher suchen nach Material...

From: Deutsche Welle on Mon, Aug 02 2010 10:45 PM

Eine Forscherin aus Darmstadt untersucht, welche Voraussetzungen für die Gewinnung von Energie aus Erdwärme nötig sind...>>Ihren Laborplatz hat sie dazu an die Universität von Island verlegt, denn da gibt es so viel Geo-Wärme wie nur an wenigen Orten der Welt. Ihre Arbeit findet aber vor allem ...

From: Deutsche Welle on Mon, Aug 02 2010 10:45 PM

"Der Ausbruch des Eyjafjallajökull im Frühjahr 2010 kam ziemlich unerwartet, Klar, wir hatten seit fast 10 Jahren Hinweise, dass irgendwas passieren würde. Aber die Abstände zwischen den Ausbrüchen des Eyjafjallajökull sind sehr groß."DW-TV: Der Blick beim Flug über Island ist fantastisch, aber ...