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Saxon fish soup à la bouillabaisse - fine fish in fine porcelain (Image: Ulrich van Stipriaan)

The Saxon fish soup is awesome

Restaurant review: Caroussel Nouvelle in the Bülow Palais in Dresden - French-influenced bistro menu, Saxon fish soup as a highlight and sophisticated wine accompaniment in a tasteful ambience.

Nora Herzog from the SEMECO sub-project SmartInfusions explains the networked infusion system that enables safer and automated therapies. Anja Stübner/EKFZ

From infusion to ultrasound: 15 million euros for smart medical technology from Dresden

Tiny chips are to make therapies safer and save lives. The Dresden research project SEMECO is receiving a further 15 million euros from the federal government. Together with industrial partners, TU Dresden is developing medical semiconductors for networked infusion systems, portable ultrasound devices and smart implants. The modular approach is intended to bring medical products to market more quickly.

Lowland tapir in the Pantanal: The researchers in Görlitz use movement data of such animals to better assess their chances of survival. M. Zanferrari/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0

How animal movements influence the survival of entire species

A new road cuts through the habitat of endangered tapirs. Will the population survive? Researchers from CASUS in Görlitz have developed a new model with Brazilian colleagues that can answer such questions. For the first time, it links the movement patterns of individual animals with the dynamics of entire populations - an important step for species conservation.

An e-bike is tested for disturbing noises on the test bench at the Fraunhofer IWU Dresden. The technology detects where rattling or buzzing occurs. Fraunhofer IWU

No more annoying bike noises

Rattling and cracking noises spoil the joy of a new e-bike. Researchers at the Fraunhofer IWU Dresden have developed a test bench that detects annoying noises at the prototype stage. This enables manufacturers to optimize their premium bikes in a targeted manner and bring them to series production.

Where are you looking? Children around the world understand gaze directions in the same way - a study from Leipzig shows. © AI-generated with ChatGPT

Children all over the world "read" gazes in the same way

How do children understand where others are looking? Researchers at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig have studied 1,377 children from 14 countries. Their findings reveal a universal thought process that works in the same way all over the world. However, the study also reveals surprising differences between individual children.