Private households are increasingly connecting to the Internet via optical fiber networks, whose bandwidth is suitable for delivering on-demand video. The fibers of the network transmit light ...

Beneath hundreds of meters of Antarctic ice, in a place no human has ever visited, warm ocean water is quietly eating away at one of the largest frozen reservoirs on Earth. New high-resolution ...

Rivers can respond to local surface uplift or depositional blockage by incision of a narrow channel, but the resulting gorges are often temporary features. Although fluvial downcutting, channel ...

Research led by LMU's Joachim Rädler uncovers how cancer cell nuclei deform when migrating through narrow channels. Using synthetic microstructures and advanced microscopy, the study shows that ...