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09.05.2013 | Climate History of the Arctic as a Key to the Future

Analyses of the longest continental sediment core ever collected in the Arctic have provided an almost continuous archive of information on arctic climate dynamics for the period from 3.6 to 2.2 million years ago. It was during this period that a transition took place from the warm Pliocene to the Quaternary, the so-called Ice Age, in which we live today and through which the polar region, which undergoes glacial /interglacial cycles with varying ice coverage, is characterized.

18.03.2013 | Queen Elizabeth Prize for the Inventors of the Internet

Queen Elizabeth Prize for the Inventors of the Internet “Nobel Prize for Engineering Sciences” Outstanding achievements of global significance in engineering science will, for the first time, be awarded today, 18 March 2013. With prize money of one million pounds the Royal Academy of Engineering this year honors the inventors of the Internet for their revolutionizing accomplishment. With this, the Queen Elizabeth Prize is the most highly endowed award in the field of engineering science worldwide.

13.03.2013 | Extreme water

The earthly, omnipresent compound water has very unusual properties that become particularly evident when subjected to high pressure and high temperatures. In the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), a German-Finnish-French team, including GFZ scientists Dr. Max Wilke, Dr. Christian Schmidt and Dr. Sandro Jahn, published what happens when water is subjected to pressure and temperature conditions such as those found in the deep Earth.