Technical University Munich
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When the water in a building's air conditioning system gets infected with Legionella bacteria, people can get Legionnaires' disease. Therefore, it's important to check that water for the bacteria on a regular basis. A new chip is promised to do the job faster than ever.
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Inspired by biological processes, researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) are developing materials that “die” when they run out of energy, which could lead to time-release drug delivery systems and eventually electronics and packaging that self-destructs when required.
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SciencePeople that wear contact lenses may be familiar with the irritation that comes from dried-out eyes, which can cause damage to ocular tissue. Scientists say that they can better avert this danger, and it involves a molecule found in the stomach of pigs.
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If you kick a ball on the ground, it will roll away from you – that’s pretty basic science. But mathematicians have found that a quantum ball would roll toward your foot instead. When a force is applied to them, quantum particles can move in the opposite direction, in an effect known as “backflow.”
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When doctors assess psoriasis, they generally do so via an examination of the scaly patches on the skin's surface. This can be subjective, however, plus it doesn't take into account what's going on at a deeper level. That's why scientists have developed a scanner that looks beneath the skin.
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We think of Wi-Fi as bathing us in a comfy, invisible blanket of data and internet access, but just as a blanket can take on the shapes of the bodies it covers, the microwave radiation sent out from a hotspot can be used to generate a three-dimensional image of the surrounding environment.
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Over the past year, teams of engineers from universities around the world have been designing and building their visions of Hyperloop pods that would carry passengers and cargo at high speeds, and this past weekend, they were finally put to the test on a track near SpaceX's Californian headquarters.
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When heavy fog or clouds roll in, navigating can become a dangerous proposition for a helicopter pilot. A new augmented reality vision system out of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) though, could help them see clearly through difficult weather using more than just their eyes.
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When some Apollo missions returned from the moon, they brought back samples of the lunar soil. New research into some of those samples has revealed that those missions also brought back something else – the remnants of a star that died near our solar system about two million years ago.
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A team of physicists at TUM are working on nanowire lasers that are a thousand times thinner than a human hair and may one day lead to economical, high-performance photonic circuits.
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US Solar Decathlon 2015 competitors the University of Texas at Austin and Munich's Technische Universität München have teamed-up to produce NexusHaus, a concept sustainable home that runs solely on solar power, and focuses on water efficiency.
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Three years ago, we first heard about the Mute electric concept car. A project followed, in which a consortium of over a dozen companies set about designing a Mute-based city car known as the Visio.M. That car is now complete, and is being revealed to the public for the first time this week.
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