Germany's Daimler pushes ahead with electric cars
German carmaker Daimler is pushing ahead with its program on electrically powered cars, aiming at producing around 10,000 vehicles by 2012, Thomas Weber, director for research and development said in Stuttgart.
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German team wins robotics World Championship event
A German team has won the RoboCup 2008 - the World Championships for robots playing football – held in Suzhou, China. In the finals, the team of students and faculty from the Technical University (TU), Darmstadt, the Humboldt University, Berlin and the University of Bremen beat the team from the Australian University of Technology, Sydney by 5-0.
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Indian lunar probe to carry German spectrometer to the moon
A spectrometer designed by Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Lindau is set to hitch a ride on the unmanned Indian lunar probe Chandrayaan-1. The SIR-2 spectrometer has been developed to examine and map the moon’s surface and help in understanding the evolution of the solar system.
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Strengthening scientific ties: Kapil Sibal visits Germany
On a five-day visit to Germany, India’s Minister of Science and Technology and Earth Sciences, Kapil Sibal, participated as the Guest of Honour at the Festive Assembly of the Max Plank Society held on 27th June in Dresden. He also took part in the opening ceremony of the Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau on 29th June.
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Young Indian Scientists meet Nobel Laureates in Germany
The Indian Department of Science and Technology (DST) selected a team of 23 young scientists to attend the Annual Meeting of the Nobel Laureates and students in Lindau in Germany, from 29th June to 4th July. The Group visited Germany for two weeks, which included the Lindau Meet, sponsored by the Lindau Committee of Nobel Laureates Meeting and visits to various premier German research institutions.
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Brilliant minds: Calculating quicker than a calculator
Multiplying eight figure numbers, figuring out the root of a six figure number, or working out a week day from randomly selected data five centuries ago – no problem for the world’s best mental calculators who gathered in Leipzig from June 28 to July 1 to find out who is the very best.
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World's biggest solar plant goes online in Germany
A solar power plant described by its operators as the biggest in the world began generating electricity at the site of a former East German air base on Sunday, June 22.
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164 Indian students and scholars chosen for EU scholarship
The European Union's Erasmus Mundus scholarships for the academic year 2008-09 have been granted to 2,000 students and 450 teaching staff from outside Europe, of which 164 have been selected from India.
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Science Express gets over 2 million visitors in seven months
Welcoming a whopping over 2.2 million visitors over the last seven months, the Indo-German Science Express – a science exhibition on wheels - has proved to be highly successful.
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German Team wins Physics World Cup
On Tuesday, May 27 the German team of young researchers won the Physics World Cup at the 21st International Young Physicists Tournament held in Croatia. The award-winning team is part of a long line of successful young physicists from Germany.
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