The EU has banned animal testing for cosmetics and non-animal alternative methods are preferable for the risk assessment of new chemical substances. At the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial ...

On behalf of the FBS (Federal Association of Concrete Sewer Systems), Fraunhofer UMSICHT prepared a life cycle assessment of the environmental impact of wastewater pipes made of (steel) concrete.

Pesticides, heavy metals, micro- and nanoplastics in the soil and environmentally harmful chemicals can have a detrimental effect on the cardiovascular system, according to a review paper published ...

October 1 marks the beginning of a new era at the Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research ISC in Würzburg. Prof. Dr. Miriam Unterlass takes over the management of the renowned Würzburg ...

Years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the right to freedom of expression remains less important to Germans who lived in the socialist German Democratic Republic (GDR) than to their West German ...

A cost-effective and sustainable water supply is increasingly becoming a crucial factor for industry. To address this development and tackle the challenges of maintaining a sustainable water ...

Press Contact: Margareta G. Kubista, tel. +46 705 30 19 80, e-mail [email protected] Communications Department Schwedischer Forschungsrat - The Swedish Research Council Inhibiting the hormone ...

The world's leading global health conference begins on October 13 The financing of WHO, Germany's role in global health, antimicrobial resistance, Mpox, digitalization - topics like these are on ...

Plastic of various sizes are also found on the German North Sea and Baltic Sea coasts. In the citizen science project “Microplastic Detectives”, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, together ...

According to Deutsche Startup Monitor, the University of Cologne has improved its position from 4th to 3rd place / As in 2023, it is the most start-up-friendly non-technical university in Germany ...

A new study from the Fraunhofer Institute for Energy Economics and Energy System Technology IEE has analysed the economic effects on the European energy system of introducing offshore hydrogen ...

Transferring knowledge from animal experiments to humans remains a key challenge in medical research. This ‘translational gap’ is often an obstacle to the successful translation of promising ...