University of Hanover

Members of the research team, Dr. Friederike Twele, Dr. Sebastian Meller, Hund Otto and Professor Holger Volk

Infectious Diseases

Trained sniffer dogs detect coronavirus with 94-percent success rate

Though experiments involving more than 1,000 samples, a research team at Germany’s University of Hanover has found that with little training, sniffer dogs are capable of detecting signs of the novel coronavirus with a high degree of accuracy.

Despite continued denials from Russia, a new study convincingly pins the source of a mysterious radioactive leak on a nuclear facility near the southern Ural mountains

Environment

Despite denials, study claims 2017's mysterious radioactive cloud did come from Russia

A radioactive cloud spread over Europe in late 2017. Despite official denials, all the evidence pointed to Russia. A new study tracking over 1,000 atmospheric measurements suggests an unreported nuclear accident did likely occur at the Mayak facility in the Southern Ural mountains of Russia.

Science

Moving cars could be used to measure rainfall

Rain gauges are generally pretty accurate at measuring the amount of precipitation that has fallen at their location, but they can't be everywhere. With that in mind, researchers are looking at using cars to tell us how much water is coming from the sky.