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Here you will find a selection of the latest R&D news from German universities, non-university research institutes and industrial research facilities.

A lighter, smarter magnetoreceptive electronic skin
Imagine navigating a virtual reality with contact lenses or operating your smartphone under water: This and more could soon be a reality thanks to innovative e-skins. A research team led by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) has developed an electronic skin that detects and precisely tracks magnetic fields with a single global sensor. This artificial skin is not only light, transparent and permeable, but also mimics the interactions of real skin and the brain, as the team reports in the journal Nature Communications (doi:/10.1038/s41467-025-56805-x).
Mar 27, 2025, 1:04:08 PM

Bureaucracy costs are a considerable burden for smaller companies in the industrial SME sector
While almost a third of bureaucratic requirements can be attributed to EU decisions, the excessive bureaucratic burden in Germany is mainly due to the federal government's legislative requirements (66%). Regulations at the state (4.5%) or municipal (1.3%) level, on the other hand, have little impact. This is the result of a study conducted by the IfM Bonn on behalf of the VDMA's IMPULS foundation. In total, the IfM researchers identified 3,900 requirements that companies in the mechanical and plant engineering sector have to take into account in the course of their normal business activities.
Mar 27, 2025, 11:09:31 AM

M. A. Selim

Newly-developed waveguide device protects photonic quantum computers from errors
Together with an international team of researchers from the Universities of Southern California, Central Florida, Pennsylvania State and Saint Louis, physicists from the University of Rostock have developed a novel mechanism to safeguard a key resource in quantum photonics: optical entanglement. Their discovery has been published online by the renowned journal “Science” on March 28, 2025.
Mar 27, 2025, 11:05:00 AM

Using science for more animal welfare: Researchers develop alternative to goose liver
It is considered a culinary specialty: Foie Gras, or goose liver. Because of its distinctive taste and texture, it is served in many star kitchens around the world and has so far been difficult to imitate. However, the French specialty is repeatedly criticized from the point of view of animal welfare, and its production is now banned in many countries. Researchers led by Thomas Vilgis from the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research have now examined real foie gras and developed an alternative that is very similar in taste and texture, but also takes animal welfare into account.
Mar 27, 2025, 11:00:00 AM

Valentin Marquardt

Even the common people drank wine in Troy

Chemical analysis yields first evidence of wine from depas goblets – and the upper classes were not alone in enjoying such luxuries
Mar 27, 2025, 10:55:56 AM

Axel J. Touw

Unexpected underground alliance: Root-knot nematodes benefit root flies
Plant-mediated interactions between two belowground agricultural pests uncovered: When field mustard plants are infected by root-knot nematodes, they change their defence strategy in a way that unintentionally benefits another belowground herbivore: the cabbage root fly. This is the conclusion of a new study led by IGZ researchers published in Plant Physiology (March 2025 issue). A combination of bioassays and ecometabolomic analyses, the researchers found that root-knot nematodes alter the plant's chemical defences, affecting its natural resistance to subsequent attackers.
Mar 27, 2025, 10:15:00 AM

A lighter, smarter magnetoreceptive electronic skin
Imagine navigating a virtual reality with contact lenses or operating your smartphone under water: This and more could soon be a reality thanks to innovative e-skins. A research team led by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) has developed an electronic skin that detects and precisely tracks magnetic fields with a single global sensor. This artificial skin is not only light, transparent and permeable, but also mimics the interactions of real skin and the brain, as the team reports in the journal Nature Communications (doi:/10.1038/s41467-025-56805-x).
Mar 27, 2025, 1:04:08 PM

Bureaucracy costs are a considerable burden for smaller companies in the industrial SME sector
While almost a third of bureaucratic requirements can be attributed to EU decisions, the excessive bureaucratic burden in Germany is mainly due to the federal government's legislative requirements (66%). Regulations at the state (4.5%) or municipal (1.3%) level, on the other hand, have little impact. This is the result of a study conducted by the IfM Bonn on behalf of the VDMA's IMPULS foundation. In total, the IfM researchers identified 3,900 requirements that companies in the mechanical and plant engineering sector have to take into account in the course of their normal business activities.
Mar 27, 2025, 11:09:31 AM

M. A. Selim

Newly-developed waveguide device protects photonic quantum computers from errors
Together with an international team of researchers from the Universities of Southern California, Central Florida, Pennsylvania State and Saint Louis, physicists from the University of Rostock have developed a novel mechanism to safeguard a key resource in quantum photonics: optical entanglement. Their discovery has been published online by the renowned journal “Science” on March 28, 2025.
Mar 27, 2025, 11:05:00 AM

Using science for more animal welfare: Researchers develop alternative to goose liver
It is considered a culinary specialty: Foie Gras, or goose liver. Because of its distinctive taste and texture, it is served in many star kitchens around the world and has so far been difficult to imitate. However, the French specialty is repeatedly criticized from the point of view of animal welfare, and its production is now banned in many countries. Researchers led by Thomas Vilgis from the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research have now examined real foie gras and developed an alternative that is very similar in taste and texture, but also takes animal welfare into account.
Mar 27, 2025, 11:00:00 AM

Valentin Marquardt

Even the common people drank wine in Troy

Chemical analysis yields first evidence of wine from depas goblets – and the upper classes were not alone in enjoying such luxuries
Mar 27, 2025, 10:55:56 AM

Axel J. Touw

Unexpected underground alliance: Root-knot nematodes benefit root flies
Plant-mediated interactions between two belowground agricultural pests uncovered: When field mustard plants are infected by root-knot nematodes, they change their defence strategy in a way that unintentionally benefits another belowground herbivore: the cabbage root fly. This is the conclusion of a new study led by IGZ researchers published in Plant Physiology (March 2025 issue). A combination of bioassays and ecometabolomic analyses, the researchers found that root-knot nematodes alter the plant's chemical defences, affecting its natural resistance to subsequent attackers.
Mar 27, 2025, 10:15:00 AM
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