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The Digital meet-up for the travel industry Photo credit © ITB Berlin 3,513 exhibitors from 120 countries reflect keen industry demand – Tourism organisations and associations, travel technology, tour operators, the hotel industry and destination management companies (DMCs) represent the top five markets – Comprehensive programme of events featuring 590 speakers and around 400 sessions, press conferences and presentations– Focus of the ITB Berlin NOW Convention on the future of the trave...

Wangarĩ Maathai grows a movement Kenyan scientist and Nobel Prize winner fought for a better environment for African women. Wangari Maathai in 1992. Credit: Wendy Stone/Getty Images In 1977, more than 40 years before United States Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York unveiled the Green New Deal, which the  New York Times in 2019 described as “a congressional resolution that lays out a grand plan for tackling climate change”, Wangarĩ Muta Maathai launched the Green Belt ...

Code Corporation Expands European Sales Leadership Team Code Corporation, a global leader in barcode scanning and data capture technologies, today announced it has expanded its management team based in the Netherlands. Industry veteran, Thomas Rissmann has been promoted to Software Sales Director, EMEA and Jessica Foo has joined the company as Software Sales Manager, EMEA. "Code Corporation has experienced tremendous growth and is expanding new market opportunities in EMEA regions," said Ke...

5 “The fundamental tenet of every Soldier, Department of the Army Civilian, or Army unit is to ‘Meet our obligation to the Nation and to each other by completing our assigned mission’”, as stated in the command philosophy of the Afghanistan District. Lieutenant Colonel (LTC) Paul D. Sipe, Deputy Commanding Officer from June 2020 through February 2021, has done just that managing a $600M Program, earning him the coveted Bronze Order of the de Fleury Medal on February 2 a...

Who Made the Codex Argenteus and Why? The Goths emerged on the historical scene in Europe suddenly. The earliest reports about Goths are generally attributed to Greco-Roman writers. They mention the Gothic tribes that dwelt beyond the Danube River, in what is today Moldova and Ukraine. Of course, these tribes didn’t simply emerge out of thin air.   Some Roman notes predate these sources, mentioning certain Gutones around the Vistula River in 1st century AD. These were most likely the earl...

 E-Mail IMAGE: 3D-printed miniature spectrometer. a, wave-optical simulation of the spectrometer. b, microscope image of the fabricated spectrometer overlayed with the intensity distribution from a. c, array of fabricated spectrometers. view more  Credit: by Andrea Toulouse, Johannes Drozella, Simon Thiele, Harald Giessen, and Alois Herkommer Femtosecond direct laser writing as a 3D printing technology has been one of the key building blocks for miniaturization in modern times. It has...

Share Funding from the QSR Platform (Kharis Capital), which controls 1,000 quick-service restaurants across Europe, will allow plant-based seafood analog maker Novish to expand rapidly in restaurants. The strategic investment from Kharis Capital, which operates Burger King, Quick, O’Tacos, and Norse locations in seven countries, will accelerate the rollout of Novish’s line of plant-based fish analog products across QSRP subsidiaries NORDSEE, a European seafood chain, and its sister-brand ...

Read the article By Alex Schrute on January 29, 2021 at 6:00 PM A new study in Germany has found that COVID-19 could have negative long-term effects on male fertility. German scientists have conducted research looking into the quality of sperm in men who contracted coronavirus and results have shown the illness to be conducive to a reduced fertility potential. They compared semen quality between two groups of men: one group that had recovered from the virus and the other that had never con...

By M.samei - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=81315930 I first encountered Marian Theodore Charlotte Heidenreich von Siebold back in 2018 when I was researching the birth of the future Queen Victoria, ahead of this year’s bicentenary. Madame Siebold was the skilled German obstetrician who by an extraordinary circumstance, assisted at the births in 1819 of both Princess Victoria and that of her future husband, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, a mer...

Emotet, a powerful piece of malware that has infected computers of individuals and businesses throughout the world, was disrupted this week by law enforcement agencies that seized both the servers controlling it as well as people suspected of keeping it running. In one of the most significant takedowns of malware operations in years, authorities from the Netherlands, Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Lithuania, Canada and Ukraine worked together to shut down computers that...