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Picture: Marlene StarkPicture: Marlene Stark
Insights into the underground
2021/01/05
Researchers at TU Darmstadt are evaluating core samples taken at a depth of five kilometres for a geothermal project
A drilling rig at the United Downs Deep Geothermal Project drilled a borehole to a depth of 4900 metres into the granite beneath Cornwall a few months ago. The 19 core samples that were extracted – the deepest that have ever been taken on the mainland in Great Britain – are now at TU Darmstadt. Researchers at the Institute of Applied Geosciences are investigating them to discover how sustainable and efficient geothermal energy can be produced in the project in Cornwall.
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Picture: Katrin BinnerPicture: Katrin Binner
Prediction made by Noble Prize laureates confirmed
2021/01/05
TU physicists detect atomic nuclei with unusual symmetry
Physicists headed by Professor Norbert Pietralla from the Institute of Nuclear Physics at the Technical University of Darmstadt have developed a method to very precisely differentiate between the states of atomic nuclei. This has led them to make a spectacular discovery.