Polluted air shortens the lifespan of Europeans by about two years

Happy #InternationalDayOfForests: a day to pay tribute to our forests & to celebrate trees - vital to the #ecosystem of our Earth!🌲🌳Also, a quick reminder that living near a forest makes your brain happier & healthier! 😊https://t.co/RAICY68doL @mpib_berlin @maxplanckpress https://t.co/5mhrI5ind3

Jens Bremer, #PhD student, Max Planck Institute for #Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems: "Hooked on a crane, the 960 kg LAUDA ITH 350 #thermostat hovers through our pilot plant hall. Its unique design should help me to speed-up chemical reactors." @maxplanckpress https://t.co/7dbCo2jwW4

#mymachineandme Jens Bremer, PhD student, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems: “Hooked on a crane, the 960 kg LAUDA ITH 350 thermostat hovers through our pilot plant hall. This way, our MPI staff (engineers, mechanics and electricians) have successfully brought the thermostat to its final destination. Its unique design should help me to speed-up chemical reactors and, thus, to operate them as flexible as cars. In the future, this will be essential to respond reliably to volatile energy supplies within chemical production chains. Cooled by the LAUDA thermostat, our final pilot plant is intended to produce synthetic methane from renewable hydrogen and carbon dioxide with start-up times of less than ten minutes.”

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This is a cryostat. It can cool down to 7 mK, only 0.007 degrees above absolute zero. Johannes Zirkelbach from Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen utilizes its power to research the interactions between light and matter by investigating single molecules embedded in a crystal.