For high-quality research output in Europe, which in the Nature Index includes the United Kingdom and Switzerland, Germany is the heaviest hitter. It is ranked third in the world after the United ...

With a new national science academy, an 'excellence initiative', a roadmap for clinical research and a beefed-up science budget, 2008 looks rosy for German science. During Annette Schavan's two-year ...

Sebastian Steudtner already holds the world record for the largest wave ever surfed, but as the giant wave season begins, the German is looking to science and technology to chase a new high.

Germany has confirmed that an old natural gas field in the Altmark region holds an estimated 43 Million Tons of lithium, ...

Ask any German researcher why the country's science base is blooming, and they are bound to mention Chancellor Angela Merkel. The world's most powerful woman, they say, has not forgotten her roots as ...

Research-oriented gender-equality standards developed by the German Research Foundation (DFG) have been accepted by the foundation's General Assembly. DFG is Germany's largest research-funding ...

THE fact that every year more than one hundred and fifty American students are pursuing their post-graduate studies in German universities is very significant, and it is well worth inquiring why they ...

A German science experiment that began 132 years ago has gotten an update. A woman in Australia found a message in a bottle that began its voyage in the 19th century as German scientists were studying ...