The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Heidelberg, Germany - Europe's first heavy-ion accelerator specially designed to destroy cancer tumours requires as much electricity to run as a town of 10,000 people, the doctor in charge said Friday. The Heidelberg Ion Radiation Therapy Centre (HIT...
Planet Fear (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
In an interview with SPIEGEL ONLINE, veteran antiwar demonstrator Tom Hayden speaks about the coming 'storm of protest' over the war in Afghanistan, growing disillusionment among the American left and the current re-evaluation -- sometimes even from the right -- of whether it is truly a 'necessary war.' SPIEGEL ONLINE: NATO air strikes called in by German commanders have reportedly killed dozens of...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 08/02/2009
Germany Priyadarshini paitandy takes in the sights and sounds of the Rhine and Heidelberg
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 07/13/2009
Heidelberg, Germany - DNA tests not available in 1980 have caught a killer 29 years later, with a former male prostitute receiving life imprisonment Monday. While police powers to prosecute murder never expire in Germany, the long delay was unusual. ...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 06/18/2009
The School of Public Health of the University of Ghana, Legon, is collaborating with the German Heidelberg University Hospital, and other institutions, to train more PhD students in Health Sciences, and Development Studies in Ghana and Africa as a whole.
Flesh and Stone (Free subscription) | 06/12/2009
Photo caption: Isolated nerve cell. Max Planck scientists have developed a new tool to visualize molecular processes in an isolated nerve cell under an electron microscope by using fluorescent reporter proteins. Synaptic activity regulates the local protein synthesis. Changes in activity and the resulting molecular changes could be responsible for the reorganization and stabilization of synapses....
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 05/25/2009
Heidelberg, Germany - People sensitive to salt can best protect their kidneys by consuming as little sodium as possible, a German nephrology association said. Too much salt can lead to high blood pressure in some people, and this in turn can damage t...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 03/30/2009
Hamburg, Germany - A team of German scientists say they have found a genetic cause for mysterious sudden deaths of perfectly healthy athletes who collapse and die of cardiac arrest. German researchers at Heidelberg University Hospital claim to have d...
This Day ... In Jewish History (Free subscription) | 02/28/2009
March 1 In Jewish History 1349 (Adar 10): Riots broke out in Worms (Germany). Many Jews fled to Heidelberg. Others in desperation set fire to their homes or were murdered. An estimated 420 people died that day. Their property was seized by the town. 1655: The Magistrate of New Amsterdam wrote a ruling making an attempt to expel the Jews. It read, in part, "resolved that the Jews who came last...
metal news (Free subscription) | 02/25/2009
In the Department of Virology at Heidelberg University a postdoctoral position (TVL-13) will be available in the laboratory of Oliver T. Keppler. Our team is interested in several exciting research questions ranging from understanding fundamental principles of virus-host interaction to the development of an HIV-susceptible small animal model (Web: http://www.klinikum.uni-heidelberg.de/Keppler.6552.0.html)....
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