Bisher wurde in Computersimulationen zur Vorhersage des Einflusses elektromagnetischer Strahlung ein „klassisches“ Verhalten von Licht angenommen. Forscher des Max-Planck-Instituts für Struktur und Dynamik der Materie in Hamburg haben dafür nun die Quantennatur des Lichts berücksichtigt. Michael Ruggenthaler vom Institut für Theoretische Physik ist an der Arbeit maßgeblich beteiligt. (more…)
Researchers from the University of Exeter are investigating the effect of climate change on deltas in South Asia and Africa to understand how people will respond and adapt.
Deltas are economic and environmental hotspots, with many large deltas in South, South-East and East Asia and Africa. The new $13 million project examines four deltas that are home to almost 200 million people, many of whom are farmers who provide food for a large proportion of the population.
The project will work with scientists, demographers and social scientists in the Nile delta in Egypt, the Ganges-Brahmaputra in Bangladesh and India, the Mahanadi in India and the Volta in Ghana. (more…)
