Parallel Imports in Asia (Max Planck Series on Asian Intellectual Property Law, 9) (Max Planck Series on Asian Intellectual Property Set) (Vol 9)
INRIA (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
INRIA and Max Planck Institute announce the next Berlin conference on Open Access. The 7th Berlin Open Access Conference will take place at the Panthéon-Sorbonne University in Paris on 2-4 December 2009. As well as taking stock of past activities, the conference will focus on the question of how to get the different communities more actively involved.
Nasa (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
A new calculation of Europe's greenhouse gas balance shows that emissions of methane and nitrous oxide tip the balance and eliminate Europe's terrestrial sink of greenhouse gases. (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft press release)
Physorg (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
A bit of imagination on the part of a measuring instrument wouldn't be a bad thing. It could help to add data from areas where the instrument is unable to measure. However, it must do so constructively. In order to infer missing data in an astronomical measurement with more than just imagination, physicists at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics have formulated a theory of spatial perception...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Information field theory enables astronomers, medical practitioners and geologists to look into places where their measuring instruments are blindA bit of imagination on the part of a measuring instrument wouldn’t be a bad thing. It could help to add data from areas where the instrument is unable to measure. However, it must do so constructively. In order to infer missing data in an astronomical...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Researchers reconstruct the evolution of bat migration with the aid of a mathematical modelNot just birds, but also a few species of bats face a long journey every year. Researchers at Princeton University in the U.S. and at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Radolfzell, Germany studied the migratory behavior of the largest extant family of bats, the so-called "Vespertilionidae"...
Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Two-dimensional carbon layers, so-called graphenes, are regarded as a possible substitute for silicon in the semiconductor industry. The electronic properties of these layers can be varied by "building in" specific arrays of holes in their structure. Physicists at Empa, together with chemists from the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz have, for the first time, succeeded in...
Physorg (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
(PhysOrg.com) -- Not just birds, but also a few species of bats face a long journey every year. Researchers at Princeton University in the U.S. and at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Radolfzell, Germany studied the migratory behaviour of the largest extant family of bats, the so-called "Vespertilionidae" with the help of mathematical models. They discovered that the migration...
Physorg (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Two-dimensional carbon layers, so-called graphenes, are regarded as a possible substitute for silicon in the semiconductor industry. The electronic properties of these layers can be varied by "building in" specific arrays of holes in their structure. Physicists at Empa, Switzerland, together with chemists from the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany, have, for the...
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Stagnating Temperatures: Climatologists Baffled by Global Warming Time-Out - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International Global warming appears to have stalled. Climatologists are puzzled as to why average global temperatures have stopped rising over the last 10 years. Some attribute the trend to a lack of sunspots, while others explain it through ocean currents. ... But a few scientists simply refuse to...
Photonics.com (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
The Sunrise balloon-borne telescope, a collaborative project between the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Katlenburg-Lindau and partn
The Daily Galaxy: Great Discoveries Channel (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
OSIRIS science team led by Dr Horst Uwe Keller at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research captured a fantastic composite image showing both the illuminated crescent of the Earth together with the cities of the northern hemisphere. The...
Wired Science (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
A telescope carried by balloon to the edge of Earth’s stratosphere has returned the most detailed video of the sun’s surface to date. Released Wednesday by an international research team led by astronomers from Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, the video shows what the naked human eye could never see, even if we [...]
Physorg (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
The Sun is a bubbling mass. Packages of gas rise and sink, lending the sun its grainy surface structure, its granulation. Dark spots appear and disappear, clouds of matter dart up - and behind the whole thing are the magnetic fields, the engines of it all. The SUNRISE balloon-borne telescope, a collaborative project between the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Katlenburg-Lindau and...
Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
In a new study, published in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, Holger Mitterer (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) and James McQueen (MPI and Radboud University Nijmegen) show how you can improve your second-language listening ability by watching the movie with subtitles -- as long as these subtitles are in the same language as the film. Subtitles in one's native language, the default in some...
Science Mag (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The Max Planck Society's expansion into the former East Germany seeded top science into the region, but challenges remain in making sure the successes take root. Author: Gretchen Vogel
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