In the summer of 2018, the collapse of a four-lane highway bridge in Genoa claimed the lives of dozens of people. Water, it was suspected, could have penetrated the concrete coating of the reinforcement and led to corrosion. A material problem. But how do experienced construction material researcher…

The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is funding a project with around 1.8 million euros to explore the fundamentals of digitalized product development. The project, initially planned for three years, is led by Daimler AG; participating with a funding amount of approximately 630,000…

An international team of scientists from the Technical University of Berlin, the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, and the University of Luxembourg has now succeeded in combining machine learning and quantum mechanics in such a way that they can predict the dynamics and atomic interac…

From September 16 to 21, 2018, the European Planetary Science Congress (EPSC) took place at the Technical University of Berlin. It is the largest annual gathering of professionals in the field of planetary research. Focus: The exploration of the planet Mercury within the most extensive European plan…

- On September 4, 2018, the large spaceflight show of the DLR took place at TU Berlin.
- The highlight was the 20-minute live call with the German ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst on the ISS.
- During this live broadcast, Alexander Gerst sealed the time capsule, a project of the DLR, into which 8,000 chi…

For most people, light is just light. Not so for the physicists in the working group of Stephan Reitzenstein, from the Institute of Solid State Physics at TU Berlin. "We are very interested in exactly which processes cause light (i.e., photons) to be emitted. The so-called photon statistics, which t…

The science surrounding micro- and nanolasers is experiencing a worldwide hype. Usually, researchers mainly focus on the fundamental physics of these lasers. What potential benefits these extremely small lasers might have in practical applications remains unclear. "The fact that there are few or no…

Hardly any chemical process today occurs without catalysis. The vast majority of all manufacturing and conversion processes in the chemical industry are catalytic. A catalyst is a substance whose participation makes the chemical reaction possible or economically feasible. An important catalytic proc…

Our Moon is today lifeless and uninhabitable. There is no significant atmosphere, no liquid water on the surface, no magnetosphere to protect against solar winds and cosmic radiation, as well as large temperature fluctuations. Linking this moon to habitability seems daring and upends previous hypoth…

Like a bombshell in the scientific community, the news broke a few days ago that NASA's Mars rover "Curiosity" had found organic molecules on the Red Planet. "This sensational discovery will further fuel the search for life on Mars," said Prof. Dr. Dirk Schulze-Makuch, astrobiologist from TU Berlin…