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Technical University of Munich is a leading German research university known for engineering, natural sciences, and computer science.
University of Innsbruck physicists made Bethe strings, predicted by Hans Bethe in 1931, from cesium atoms in thousands of one-dimensional tubes. Because the atoms' attraction is tunable, physicists now have a controllable gas for studying bound states of many particles.
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Researchers in Regensburg, Munich and Prague shifted the energy of light from polariton condensates in the layered magnet CrSBr using a magnetic field. These condensates can form with far less cooling than atomic gases, so a way to tune their light matters for quantum optics outside specialised labs.
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TUM and AOK Bayern released a free health app for teachers, built on profiles from a three-year study of more than 1,400 Bavarian teachers. The research shapes what the app recommends. An evaluation of whether that advice improves teachers' health has not yet been reported.
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Sebastian Böcker's Jena group reports in Nature Methods a tool that predicts chromatography retention times on new lab systems without retraining. Whether that makes retention time a dependable filter for identifying unknown molecules depends on how large its prediction errors are.
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Caltech physicists measured energy ladders two conformal field theories have predicted for about 40 years, using a line of laser-trapped strontium atoms. It is the known-answer test a simulator must pass before it is trusted on unsolved systems.
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Technical University of Munich ecologists found male pigeons raised their incubation share from 17% to 22% as food-short females fell from 81% to 75%. The eggs stayed covered almost as fully, so city feeding bans left incubation running.
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UNIST-led chemists calculate that packing a liquid-hydrogen tank with the porous crystal IRMOF-20 stretches its time to empty from about 64 days to 221. Those figures come from a model of a transport-scale tank, and no working vessel has yet been tested against them.
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Weill Cornell-led researchers found 18% of under-65 patients had cognitive impairment within two years of neck lymph node removal, versus 4-6% expected. Because the comparison is with population rates, the finding makes a firmer case for cognitive follow-up than for cutting less.
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Henri Braunmiller's Munich team imaged fungal hyphae inside intact soil using synchrotron CT, in minutes where a lab CT can take hours. The 3D views place hyphae among roots and sand grains in small potted samples.
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Julius Mercz of the Technical University of Munich and co-authors design a lunar reactor whose 1,000-degree heat would drive moon-dust electrolysis directly. Sending heat to the hottest job first avoids a lossy detour through electricity, and every temperature in the chain is still a design target in an arXiv preprint.
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A Leibniz Institute pipeline learned from roughly 500 known bitter peptides, invented 161 more, and sent the most distinctive 31 to a blinded trained panel that agreed with the model on 25. The scoring was bitter or not bitter.
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MemBrain v2, published in Nature Methods by groups in Munich and Basel, reports a 91% F1 score locating membrane protein complexes on new membranes after a single one was labelled by hand. Its authors put the time saving at weeks down to a few hours.
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European defence startups can raise equity on policy intent. J.P. Morgan's bankers say the borrowing that funds production needs signed multi-year contracts from ministries that still buy one country at a time.
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TQ Ventures and Sheryl Sandberg's family office put $4m behind a Munich battery-software spin-off whose 800 customers average 7.5 sites each, and how much of that footprint trades live is not broken out.
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German 15-year-olds scored below their first-ever PISA results in all three domains. The round that should have shown a post-pandemic rebound fell further instead. The decade-long decline now looks structural.
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Caltech's Endres and Alicea groups report the first direct measurement of Ising and tricritical Ising energy spectra in synthetic quantum matter, on chains of up to 35 strontium atoms.
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