Lager beer is loved by people across the globe. Beer aficionados know that the main factor that separates lager and ale is the kind of yeasts used for making the two beer types. It’s true that since a long time brewers are aware of the fact that lager is made using a special type of yeast; however, they never knew what exactly make that yeast different. Evolutionary geneticist Chris Todd Hittinger, who is a representative of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is Read more [...]

When a baby is born very premature, researchers can accurately predict their adult IQ by the age of two, according to a new study from the University of Warwick. The study, which appears in the journal Pediatrics, followed children who were born in southern Bavaria, Germany in 1985 and 1986 from birth into adulthood. Researchers assessed the children's cognitive development at the ages of five months, 20 months, four years, six years, eight years and 26 Read more [...]

The teenager discovered the precious metal at a depth of about 2 metres near the shore of Bavaria’s Koenigssee lake on Friday. A 16 year old girl has made an unexpected find while lake-swimming in the German Alps – a 500g (17.6oz) bar of gold. Rather than keep it for herself, she handed it to local authorities. This has helped experts work out that the gold bar is worth a whopping £11,500. Divers on Tues. carried out a basic search of the world around where the bar was Read more [...]

By 52nd Fighter Wing Public Affairs, / Published August 13, 2015 SPANGDAHLEM AIR BASE, Germany (AFNS) -- The investigation into the Aug. 11 F-16C Fighting Falcon crash near Engelmannreuth in the county of Bayreuth, Germany, is currently ongoing."The purpose of this investigation is to determine what caused the incident so we can take steps in the future to prevent a similar outcome," said Col. Steve Read more [...]

From America’s Budweiser to Germany’s Munich Helles, lager beer is a staple beverage across the world. Ask any beer aficionado about the difference between a lager and ale, and if he’s worth his salt he will tell you that it’s all about the yeast. While brewers have long known that lager uses a special kind of yeast, exactly what makes this yeast different has long been a mystery. Chris Todd Hittinger, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is hoping to shed some Read more [...]

Experts report that, in light of summer, athletes should be careful to avoid hyponatremia, a condition that comes from consuming too much liquid, You probably remember from trivia night at the bar that the ancient Sumerians were the first to brew beer – some 6,000 years ago. But what about lager? It’s a bit harder to determine, but thankfully genetics is able to help. With state of the art sequencing, researchers were able to track the yeast used for making popular lager to the German Read more [...]

A teenage girl found a gold bar worth £11,500 while swimming in a German lake which, according to legend, holds Nazi treasures. The 16-year-old holidaymaker was diving in Bavaria's Koenigssee lake on Friday when she saw the ingot, which weighs 500g (1lb), glimmering in the water about two metres under the surface and gave it to police. Rumours have grown the gold bar is part of a legendary hoard that supposedly hidden in the lake, not far from Hitler's Obersalzberg mountain retreat. But German Read more [...]

The German art world got knocked off its rocker earlier this year when two massive bronze horse sculptures were discovered unexpectedly during a series of raids aimed at smashing an underground art trading ring. The horses were sculpted by Josef Thorak, one of Adolf Hitler's personal favorites, and were given a very prominent position in the Third Reich - on either side of the entry to Hitler's chancellery in Berlin, effectively guarding the Führer's personal office. Nobody really knew until Read more [...]

Berlin: Using next-generation sequencing techniques, scientists have traced the origins of the yeast used in making the most popular lager beer all the way back to 15th Century Bavaria in Germany. The beer world is divided into ales and lagers. The original and highly versatile yeast, Saccharromyces cerevisiae, has been used for millennium to make ales, wine and bread. Representational picture But the second great beer innovation was the origins of lager beer during the 15th century, when Bavarians Read more [...]