Archiv: Forschung / research (science)


04.05.2026 - 12:00 [ Informationsstelle Militarisierung ]

Aus Völkerrechtsbrüchen lernen? Deutsch-Israelische Militärkooperation im Zeichen der Zeitenwende

(April 23, 2026)

Die Studie untersucht die deutsch-israelische Militärkooperation seit dem Verkünden der „Zeitenwende“ durch
Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz, die für eine massive Aufstockung der deutschen Militärausgaben steht. Angesichts
der israelischen Aggressionen und dem Genozid in Gaza seit dem 7. Oktober 2023 stellt der Beitrag fest, dass die Militärkooperation mit Israel einen Verstoß gegen das Völkerrecht darstellt. Sie zeigt weiter auf, wie deutsche Gesetzgeber und Militärvertreter Verbindungen zur IDF und zur israelischen Rüstungsindustrie suchen, sei es beim Erwerb von Militärtechnologie, beim Informationsaustausch über Wirtschaftswachstum durch die Waffenproduktion oder um Erkenntnisse über die effiziente Integration von Frauen
und der Reserve in die Armee zu gewinnen. Die Studie untersucht zudem die Interessen der Akteure, die die Militärkooperation vorantreiben, und skizziert die Folgen des Militarismus für die deutsche Zivilgesellschaft im Hinblick auf die Zusammenarbeit zwischen den Staaten.

04.05.2026 - 11:43 [ Informationsstelle Militarisierung ]

IMI-Studie zu deutsch-israelischer Militärkooperation veröffentlicht

(Artikel 23, 2026)

In einer neuen Studie der Informationsstelle Militarisierung e.V. untersucht Melchior Grabowski die militärische Zusammenarbeit zwischen Israel und Deutschland seit dem Verkünden der Zeitenwende. Sie zeigt auf, dass trotz massiver Völkerrechtsbrüche Israels umfangreiche Militärkooperationen zwischen den beiden Ländern stattfinden, die tief in Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft eingreifen. Damit deckt die Studie auf, welche deutschen Interessen abseits der „Staatsräson“ in der militärischen Kooperation mit Israel bestehen.

04.05.2026 - 09:56 [ TechHQ.com ]

Breaking down Germany’s Cyber Dome: What this Israel partnership involves

(July 2, 2025)

The first pillar involves establishing a joint German-Israeli cyber research centre, which would serve as the intellectual foundation for developing advanced defensive technologies. This collaboration leverages Israel’s established expertise in cybersecurity innovation with Germany’s robust technological infrastructure and research capabilities.

Strengthening cooperation between intelligence services forms the second component, specifically enhancing collaboration between Germany’s BND (Bundesnachrichtendienst) and Israel’s Mossad. This intelligence-sharing framework aims to provide early warning systems for emerging cyber threats and coordinate responses to state-sponsored attacks.

The third element focuses on expanding Germany’s anti-drone defence capabilities, addressing a growing concern as unmanned aerial vehicles become increasingly weaponised and accessible to hostile actors.

26.02.2026 - 00:00 [ Drop Site News ]

Jeffrey Epstein Recruited NSA Codebreakers for Genome “Manhattan Project”

(February 10, 2026)

For the next decade, Epstein continued to recruit engineers from U.S. national security entities, including DARPA, to his genome hacking project. He asked Kathryn Ruemmler, the White House attorney who had handled the legal fallout from the Edward Snowden leaks, to help him source cryptographers from the National Security Agency. “Can you find a guy from nsa that can think about signal intelligence applied to DNA,” Epstein wrote . “I want to intercept communication between living cells in organisms.”

In late 2012, he had sent the same request to Boris Nikolic, Bill Gates’ top aide: “do you have any contacts at nsa so that we can use de encypriton (sic) in biological systems?” “Yes,” Nikolic replied, “There are no many places where I do not have someone ;)”

13.02.2026 - 01:21 [ Geophysical Research Letters 35(16) / researchgate.net ]

Magnetic effect on CO 2 solubility in seawater: A possible link between geomagnetic field variations and climate

(August 2008)

Correlations between geomagnetic-field and climate parameters have been suggested repeatedly, but possible links are controversially discussed. Here we test if weak (Earth-strength) magnetic fields can affect climatically relevant properties of seawater. We found the solubility of air in seawater to be by 15% lower under reduced magneticfield (20 mT) compared to normal field conditions (50 mT). The magnetic-field effect on CO2 solubility is twice as large, from which we surmise that geomagnetic field variations modulate the carbon exchange between atmosphere and ocean. A 1% reduction in magnetic dipole moment may release up to ten times more CO2 from the surface ocean than is emitted by subaerial volcanism.

13.11.2025 - 03:08 [ Geophysical Research Letters 35(16) / researchgate.net ]

Magnetic effect on CO 2 solubility in seawater: A possible link between geomagnetic field variations and climate

(August 2008)

Correlations between geomagnetic-field and climate parameters have been suggested repeatedly, but possible links are controversially discussed. Here we test if weak (Earth-strength) magnetic fields can affect climatically relevant properties of seawater. We found the solubility of air in seawater to be by 15% lower under reduced magneticfield (20 mT) compared to normal field conditions (50 mT). The magnetic-field effect on CO2 solubility is twice as large, from which we surmise that geomagnetic field variations modulate the carbon exchange between atmosphere and ocean. A 1% reduction in magnetic dipole moment may release up to ten times more CO2 from the surface ocean than is emitted by subaerial volcanism.

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The fact that the MF effect is similar among the molecular gases suggests that effects seen with air are not due to the paramagnetic susceptibility of O 2, which is too small to explain the observed magnetic-field effects in terms of magnetization effects.

13.11.2025 - 02:52 [ Nature.com ]

Mysterious link between Earth’s magnetism and oxygen levels baffles scientists

(June 13, 2025)

The strength of Earth’s magnetic field seems to rise and fall in line with the abundance of oxygen in the planet’s atmosphere, a study of geological records spanning the past half a billion years has found.

13.11.2025 - 02:41 [ Science.org ]

Strong link between Earth’s oxygen level and geomagnetic dipole revealed since the last 540 million years

(June 13, 2025)

We search for possible observational evidence for such a relationship by examining evolutions of the virtual geomagnetic axial dipole moment and the atmospheric oxygen level over the past 540 million years. We find that both exhibit strong linearly increasing trends, coupled with a large surge in magnitude between 330 and 220 million years ago.

13.11.2025 - 02:39 [ National Aeronautics and Space Administration ]

NASA Scientists Find Ties Between Earth’s Oxygen and Magnetic Field

(June 18, 2025)

Data for both Earth’s magnetic field and oxygen extend over comparable ranges in databases that myriad geophysicists and geochemists have compiled. Until now, the authors of the new study say, no scientists had made a detailed comparison of the records.

08.07.2025 - 16:55 [ ArabNews.com ]

What new research reveals about Gaza’s real death toll — and why it’s far higher than official figures

“Our estimate for the number of violent deaths far exceeds the figures from the Ministry of Health,” said Michael Spagat, a professor of economics at Royal Holloway College, University of London, the lead author of the study and chairman of the board of trustees of the UK charity Every Casualty Counts.

“The implication of this is that the ministry has not been exaggerating the number of violent deaths.”

27.06.2025 - 04:28 [ NPR.org ]

Forget ‚total obliteration‘ — experts say Iran and U.S. need to negotiate

Iran has limited its interaction with IAEA inspectors for several years, although they were still allowed to monitor declared nuclear sites. On Wednesday, Iran‘s parliament recommended a bill that effectively suspended cooperation with the agency. On Thursday, the country‘s Guardian Council fully approved it.

Iran has made clear that the suspension does not mean it will pull out of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, but it will prevent IAEA inspections of Iran‘s bombed nuclear facilities.

„The Iranian regime has invested decades in its nuclear program and also an unparalleled amount of resources,“ says Stroul, of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. „So to think that after less than two weeks, they are just going to take a knee and abandon their entire nuclear ambitions is likely a short sighted approach.“

24.04.2025 - 22:36 [ Avatar Donald J. Trump / Social Truth ]

Harvard is an Anti-Semitic, Far Left Institution, as are numerous others, with students being accepted from all over the World that want to rip our Country apart.

The place is a Liberal mess, allowing a certain group of crazed lunatics to enter and exit the classroom and spew fake ANGER AND HATE. It is truly horrific! Now, since our filings began, they act like they are all “American Apple Pie.” Harvard is a threat to Democracy, with a lawyer, who represents me, who should therefore be forced to resign, immediately, or be fired. He’s not that good, anyway, and I hope that my very big and beautiful company, now run by my sons, gets rid of him ASAP!

24.04.2025 - 22:33 [ New York Times ]

Trump Directs Sons to Fire Trump Org. Lawyer Because of Harvard Ties

In a statement, one of the sons, Eric Trump, confirmed that the Trump Organization intended to cut ties to Mr. Burck over his decision to represent Harvard.

“I view it as a conflict, and I will be moving in a different direction,” he said.

Mr. Burck declined to comment.

24.04.2025 - 22:29 [ Harvard University ]

Harvard files lawsuit against Trump administration

(April 21, 2025)

Harvard filed a lawsuit Monday against the Trump administration, arguing its freeze on research funding is unconstitutional and “flatly unlawful” and calling on the court to restore more than $2.2 billion in research dollars.

The filing, in U.S. District Court in Boston, requests that the court vacate and set aside the funding freeze to allow previously approved funding to flow and halt administration efforts to freeze current or deny future funding without engaging in procedures contained in federal law.

11.01.2025 - 22:20 [ Solhyd.eu ]

The technology: A solar panel that produces hydrogen

Air contains moisture. The water molecules in the air are captured by the panel when the airstream enters the device.

Solhyd technology can be applied in many locations around the globe. Only the most arid places on Earth are expected to be too dry for hydrogen panels to work efficiently.

03.09.2024 - 13:50 [ Solhyd.eu ]

Successful production of hydrogen panels

(November 15, 2024)

Solhyd not only develops technology to produce hydrogen from air and sunlight. We also develop methods to produce that technology in a cost-effective and reliable manner. Efficient production, with cost reductions driven by scale benefits, will eventually lead to the lowest cost approach to make hydrogen from solar energy.

We took the first step in that process this year.

03.09.2024 - 13:31 [ Katholieke Universiteit Leuven ]

Green energy breakthrough thanks to KU Leuven scientists

(02 October 2019)

For over a decade, Professor Johan Martens and Drs. Tom Bosserez, Jan Rongé and Christos Trompoukis have been developing a ‘solar hydrogen panel’, i.e. a solar panel that can create hydrogen from the water vapour in the air. Using sunlight, moisture taken from the air – i.e. no liquid water – is split into hydrogen on the one hand, and oxygen molecules on the other.

The panel is able to directly convert no less than 15 per cent of sunlight into hydrogen gas, Which is a world record

20.09.2023 - 04:33 [ ORF.at ]

KI bestimmt Risiko für genetische Erkrankungen

(19.09.2023)

Die Suche nach den Ursachen für genetische Erkrankungen ist ein großes Unterfangen, bei dem vermehrt auch künstliche Intelligenz (KI) zum Einsatz kommt. Ein neues KI-Werkzeug von Google DeepMind kann das Krankheitsrisiko abschätzen, das von bestimmten Genmutationen ausgeht. Die entstandene Datenbank soll künftige Untersuchungen zur Entstehung der Krankheiten deutlich erleichtern.

20.09.2023 - 04:25 [ European Bioinformatics Institute / European Molecular Biology Laboratory ]

New predictions of genetic variant pathogenicity using AlphaFold protein structures

(19.09.2023)

Google DeepMind has developed a new tool called AlphaMissense, which uses the AlphaFold human protein structure models to predict whether a sequence variant which changes one amino acid in a protein is likely to be tolerated or to impact protein function.

The Ensembl Variant Effect Predictor now integrates Google DeepMind’s new AlphaMissense Catalogue.

20.09.2023 - 04:19 [ endpts.com ]

Al­phaFold, meet Al­phaMis­sense: Google Deep­Mind‘s AI suc­ces­sor pre­dicts how 71M mu­ta­tions cause dis­ease

Google Deep­Mind has de­vel­oped an AI sys­tem that pre­dicts the chances that tens of mil­lions of ge­net­ic vari­ants will cause dis­ease.

20.09.2023 - 03:49 [ European Bioinformatics Institute / European Molecular Biology Laboratory ]

A more diverse human reference genome

(10 May 2023)

The work was led by the international Human Pangenome Reference Consortium (HPRC), a group funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and consisting of 14 institutes, including EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). (…)

The majority of the genomes used to create the human pangenome reference were collected as part of the 1000 genomes project, the largest public catalogue of human variation and genotype data from a wide range of populations. (…)

In order to understand the differences in the genes present across the individual genomes represented in the human pangenome, researchers in EMBL-EBI’s Ensembl team needed to map the high-quality annotations on the reference human genome generated as part of the GENCODE project, across the pangenome.

20.09.2023 - 03:12 [ Wikipedia ]

1000 Genomes Project

Some genomic differences may not affect fitness. Neutral variation, previously thought to be “junk” DNA, is unaffected by natural selection resulting in higher genetic variation at such sites when compared to sites where variation does influence fitness.[14]

It is not fully clear how natural selection has shaped population differences; however, genetic candidate regions under selection have been identified recently. (…)

It was found that on average, each person carries around 250–300 loss-of-function variants in annotated genes and 50-100 variants previously implicated in inherited disorders. Based on the two trios, it is estimated that the rate of de novo germline mutation is approximately 10−8 per base per generation.

20.09.2023 - 02:51 [ National Library of Medicine / National Institutes of Health (NIH) ]

The 1000 Genomes Project: Welcome to a New World

(Dec 2015)

“Now this is not the end… But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning” as Winston Churchill said. Large-scale sequencing projects will continue for more regional or ethnic groups, in order to extend the global coverage. Much effort will focus on a better understanding of the relationship between genetic variation and common disorders. The translation of this massive genetic information to human health will benefit from the development of complex databases gathering genetic, clinical, and biological data, such as multi-omics profiles, while maintaining protection of potentially sensitive personal information (3). Efforts are also underway to increase genetic awareness in the public and to educate health professionals

20.09.2023 - 02:12 [ GENCODE project ]

GENCODE

The goal of the GENCODE project is to identify and classify all gene features in the human and mouse genomes with high accuracy based on biological evidence, and to release these annotations for the benefit of biomedical research and genome interpretation.

20.09.2023 - 01:59 [ European Molecular Biology Laboratory ]

The Human Genome Project at 20: interview with Ewan Birney

(25 April 2023)

EMBL-EBI Director Ewan Birney was a graduate student in the 90s, when the Human Genome Project was in full swing. On the project’s 20th anniversary, he shares his memories of the slow but incredibly accurate analysis software he developed, how the private initiative sped up the public one, and how a betting book highlighted how little we knew about the human genome at the time.

20.09.2023 - 01:45 [ European Molecular Biology Laboratory ]

DeepMind and EMBL release the most complete database of predicted 3D structures of human proteins

(22 July 2021)

For those scientists who rely on experimental protein structure determination, AlphaFold’s predictions have helped accelerate their research. For example, a team at the University of Colorado Boulder is finding promise in using AlphaFold predictions to study antibiotic resistance, while a group at the University of California San Francisco has used them to increase their understanding of SARS-CoV-2 biology.

The AlphaFold Protein Structure Database builds on many contributions from the international scientific community, as well as AlphaFold’s sophisticated algorithmic innovations and EMBL-EBI’s decades of experience in sharing the world’s biological data. DeepMind and EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) are providing access to AlphaFold’s predictions so that others can use the system as a tool to enable and accelerate research and open up completely new avenues of scientific discovery.

18.09.2023 - 23:03 [ ExtremeTech.com ]

ESnet: The 100-gigabit shadow internet that only the US government has access to

(October 20, 2014)

One day, as I surfed the web on my laptop and lamented how long it takes a YouTube video to load, I found myself wondering if employees of the US government — DoD researchers, DoE scientists, CIA spies — are also beholden to the same congestion and shoddy peering that affects everyone else on the internet. Surely, as hundreds of scientists at Fermi Lab near Chicago wait for petabytes of raw data to arrive from the Large Hadron Collider in Europe, they don‘t suffer interminable connection drops and inexplicable lag. And, as it turns out, they don‘t: the US government and its national laboratories all have exclusive access to ESnet — a shadow internet that can sustain 100-gigabits-per-second transfers between any of the major Department of Energy labs. And today, the DoE announced that the 100-gigabit ESnet will be extended across the Atlantic to our Old World comrades, who occasionally manage to dazzle us with their scientific endeavors.