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Looking at food 'prompts appetite hormone'

Science & Technology: 19 Jan 12
The feelings of hunger that suddenly appear when looking at pictures of food are not all in the head – German researchers have shown they are in the blood too. READ »

Researchers make malaria breakthrough

Science & Technology: 17 Jan 12
German researchers announced Tuesday they had developed a process to make the most effective anti-malaria drug cheaper and easier to produce in large life-saving quantities. READ »

Scientists create world's smallest steam engine

Science & Technology: 13 Dec 11
German researchers have developed a super-tiny steam engine that’s just a few thousandths of a millimetre wide. READ »

Honour killings not rising

Society: 3 Aug 11
Researchers who have analysed more than 70 cases of so-called "honour killings" in Germany say they are not on the rise – and suggest that better integration of migrants could help in preventing such crimes. READ »

French and German mice refuse to play nice

Science & Technology: 22 Jul 11
German and French mice prefer to stick to their own kind when it comes to sex, according to scientists trying to work out whether it is a language thing or different tastes in perfume. READ »

The South rises again – in eastern Germany

Lifestyle: 1 Jul 11
As America marks the 150th anniversary of the outbreak of the US Civil War this year, German history buffs have been re-enacting the bloody battles between the Union and Confederacy. Caitlan Carroll reports. READ »

Authorities expect more E. coli deaths

National: 8 Jun 11
German Health Minister Daniel Bahr said on Wednesday the nation's authorities expected more deaths from E. coli bacteria, but there were signs the virulent outbreak was peaking. The EU has called for Germany to accept outside help. READ »

Human egg gives sperm a ‘navigation system’

Science & Technology: 18 Mar 11
Men might disdain female directions while driving, but when it comes to human reproduction a woman’s egg offers key navigation help to sperm. German scientists have discovered how hormones guide sperm to their destination. READ »

Germany struggles to find skilled workers

National: 10 Jan 11
As Germany's robust economic recovery continues, the country’s companies are finding it increasingly hard to find enough skilled workers. Kyle James reports on the impending labour shortage. READ »

German ignorance of economics revealed

Business & Money: 13 Dec 10
Germans know extremely little about economics and three quarters don't even have a full grasp of how percentages work, a new study has found. READ »

Osnabrück Zoo celebrates orangutan artist

Society: 10 Dec 10
A zoo in Lower Saxony has discovered an unexpected artistic talent: “Buschi” the orangutan is selling paintings for up to €200 to support environmental protection projects. READ »

Germany's Max Planck funds new Canadian physics centre

Science & Technology: 5 Oct 10
German and Canadian scientists have announced plans to open an advanced research centre on semiconductors, metals, magnetic materials and other aspects of quantum physics. READ »

Scientists find evidence of earlier Stone Age use of tools

Science & Technology: 12 Aug 10
Ancient animal bones bearing cut marks have revealed that hominims were using stone tools to butcher meat some 800,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to new findings published this week by scientists. READ »

Scientists prove humans bred with Neanderthals

Science & Technology: 6 May 10
For the first time ever, German scientists have drafted a genome sequence for the Neanderthal and believe their results show that the extinct hominid interbred with humans. READ »

Ash danger unclear despite green light

National: 21 Apr 10
Air traffic authorities’ Wednesday decision to lift restrictions on German airspace – effectively declaring it safe to fly – was based on the same data previously criticised as insufficient by airlines, officials told The Local. READ »

Scientists predict colder European winters to come

Science & Technology: 15 Apr 10
Continental Europe and Britain are likely to see more unusually cold winters like last season due to low solar activity, according to a new study by British and German researchers published on Thursday. READ »

Scientists discover new human species in Siberia

Science & Technology: 25 Mar 10
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig say they have discovered a previously unknown type of human after tests on a 30,000-year-old finger bone found in Siberia. READ »

Is Germany dying out?

Society: 22 Jan 10
“Birth rates at an all-time low!” “The Germans are dying out!” The headlines couldn’t be more alarming, but the statistics behind are more complex. Jacinta Nandi and Ben Knight pick apart Germany’s demographic anxieties. READ »

Comet-hunting probe to explore origins of the solar system

Science & Technology: 13 Nov 09
A German-made spacecraft set to probe a giant comet and help scientists understand how the solar system formed was preparing on Friday to use Earth’s orbit to sling itself into deep space, the European Space Agency announced. READ »

Scientists pinpoint genetic changes due to childhood trauma

Science & Technology: 9 Nov 09
Extreme stress and trauma in childhood can change a person’s genes, making them more susceptible to depression and other disorders, a new study published by the Max Planck Institute for Psychology in Munich has revealed. READ »

Study finds babies cry in German

Science & Technology: 6 Nov 09
German scientists have found newborns cry in their mother tongue, signalling that they begin learning the sounds of language while still in the womb. READ »

'Book reverend' saves a million scrapped East German books

National: 30 Oct 09
For nearly 20 years, Reverend Martin Weskott has been saving books printed in the former East Germany from the rubbish heap of history. READ »

Dresden institute ranked best place for scientists to work

Science & Technology: 29 Oct 09
The Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden has been ranked as the best international place for scientists to work in academia. READ »

What's on in Germany: October 22 - 28

Lifestyle: 22 Oct 09
This Week's Highlights: A Little Mermaid ballet in Hamburg, Super 8 films in Frankfurt, and Berlin hosts an art show in a historic bathhouse. READ »

Experts deny reported spike in police phone surveillance

National: 24 Sep 09
Legal experts denied on Thursday reports that said telephone surveillance has increased disproportionately in Germany. READ »

Germany's new hatred

Analysis & Opinion: 10 Jul 09
A Muslim woman is stabbed to death in a Dresden courtroom and nobody seems to care. Der Tagesspiegel’s Andrea Dernbach comments on Germany’s problematic relationship to Islam. READ »

German mini tracker chip tracks butterfly migration

Science & Technology: 27 Jun 09
German scientists have managed to make a radio transmitter so small that they can use it to track the migration of monarch butterflies. READ »

Scientists find giant crabs have evolved sense of smell

Science & Technology: 2 Jun 09
Evolutionary biologists in Germany have discovered that the world’s largest land crab has a well-developed sense of smell to aid its adaptation from life away from the sea. READ »

Research shows Neanderthals suffered painful, yet simple childbirth

Science & Technology: 22 Apr 09
New findings by a German-American team of researchers show that Neanderthal childbirth may have been just as difficult – if more primitive – than in humans. READ »

German study shows chimps trade sex for food

Science & Technology: 8 Apr 09
The way to a chimp's heart is through her stomach, German researchers revealed on Wednesday. READ »

German camera on Mars probe potentially discovers ice

Science & Technology: 3 Jun 08
The German camera attached to a robot arm on the Phoenix spacecraft sent to Mars by NASA has possibly discovered ice on the red planet. READ »

Missing German researcher found alive in Congo

National: 2 Jun 08
A German woman who went missing last month in the Democratic Republic of Congo while studying great apes has been found alive, the German foreign ministry said Monday. Exact circumstances of her disappearance remain unclear. READ »

What's On In Germany: April 17 - 23

Lifestyle: 17 Apr 08
This Week's Highlights: Bollywood in Berlin, dance in Dresden and a musical theatre festival in Munich. READ »

Brain study raises doubts about free will

Science & Technology: 14 Apr 08
In what they call a "striking finding," a group of scientists in Germany have determined they can predict human decisions based on brain activity several seconds before the subject is aware of the choice. READ »

Germany liberalizes stem cell research

Science & Technology: 11 Apr 08
The German parliament voted on Friday to liberalize controversial stem cell research. READ »

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