This weekend, the research vessel Polarstern is scheduled to depart from her homeport in Bremerhaven. In addition to the crew, 33 scientific expedition participants will be on board – primarily young researchers whose job it will be to familiarise themselves with using echosounders to survey the ocean floor.

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is fostering tech-based startups to boost East Tennessee's economy and create high-paying jobs. Entrepreneurs can leverage resources like the I-Corps Mid-South Hub, Spark Innovation Center, and Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. UT supports tech founders with state-of-the-art research capabilities, minimizing risks and attracting investors.

A document held in Göttingen University’s Faculty of Humanities has been revealed as an 18^th century forgery. The document purports to be from 1266, but mentions a church in Pisa that was not built until later. This discovery is the result of research by Dr Boris Gübele, historian at the University of Göttingen, working with Italian researchers.

Anyone who has flown on a commercial flight, crossed an international border, visited a government building or attended a concert knows you’re not getting inside until you pass the security guards.

There is growing concern about the conservation of seabirds. Globally, their conservation status is worsening at a much faster rate than for any other group of birds. Today, about 30% of seabirds are threatened and 70% of seabird populations worldwide have disappeared in the last six decades. At sea, bycatches by fishing gear, overfishing, pollution, infrastructure such as wind farms or oil platforms and climate change are threats to the survival of all populations.

Think of an iconic moment in tennis—Rafael Nadal’s win over Roger Federer, John McEnroe throwing a fit, Venus and Serena Williams facing off across the net, Martina Navratilova and Billie Jean King winning the doubles title, Pete Sampras’s career—and even those who don’t follow the sport will likely imagine a game played on the iconic grass courts of Wimbledon. Grass courts have a long and storied history in the sport, and are often considered the ultimate surface that brings out the best in an elite player. What most don’t know is that the Turfgrass Science Program, run by UMass Amherst’s Stockbridge School of Agriculture, is revered not only for its research into sports turfs, but for its grass tennis courts—free for all—that have drawn tennis players from all across the U.S. for more than a decade.

A consortium of 13 national laboratories and universities aims to develop high-energy, long-lasting sodium-ion batteries that are made from inexpensive, abundant materials and reduce U.S. reliance on critical elements used in electric-vehicle batteries.