Intracellular Express — Why Transport Protein Molecules have Brakes

Through single-molecule biomechanical experiments, Munich researchers have revealed in unprecedented detail how an intracellular express delivery service works, and why it is so efficient. With tools including optical tweezers, they manipulated a special...

Market Researchers Forecast Threefold Increase for LEDs And OLEDs

Market researchers have forecast a threefold increase up to almost 13 billion Euros by 2012 for light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and organic LEDs (OLEDs). These technologies offer a particularly small size, a long lifetime and top levels of energy-efficiency,...

Drunk Passenger Forces Lufthansa Airliner to Make an Emergency Landing

A drunk passenger has caused a Lufthansa airliner en route from Munich to Tokyo to make an emergency landing in Russia’s Far East city early on Saturday.

Coca-Cola Team of Happiness Ambassadors on 206-Country, 150,000-Mile Journey

From Aruba to Zimbabwe and nearly every nation in between, a team of three young people will attempt to visit 206 countries where Coca-Cola is sold to seek out what makes people happy and share their happiness and enthusiasm with the rest of the world.