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[00:00:00] for congressional approval. This is the third meaning resolution this summer, but none
[00:00:03] has reached the president himself who has to sign it. It is certain
[00:00:07] that Trump would veto it. Oh, under circumstances of a
[00:00:10] very thin Republican majority, the opposition Democrats had a majority
[00:00:14] for passing the resolution provided by four Republican
[00:00:17] representatives. All Democratic representatives voted for
[00:00:20] the resolution.
[00:00:27] At the end of our news program, the weather forecast follows, brought to us by Sara
[00:00:30] Botic.
[00:00:32] Although we have already stepped into the second half of September, the weather
[00:00:36] these days reminds us that summer still officially
[00:00:39] lasts. Ahead of us are sunny, warm days, but fresh
[00:00:42] mornings, the temperature will then during the day be above
[00:00:45] average. Over our region, a field of slightly
[00:00:49] elevated atmospheric pressure and warm air masses remains, so the weather
[00:00:52] in the coming days will be stable with weak to moderate development of daytime
[00:00:56] cloudiness. On Thursday, it will be sunny,
[00:00:59] warm. With moderate cloud development, wind weak to
[00:01:02] moderate, it will be dry without precipitation, the minimum temperature
[00:01:05] will be from 8 to 14, only in Belgrade warmer around
[00:01:09] 16 degrees, while then after a fresh morning, warm during the day,
[00:01:12] the highest temperature from 28 to 31
[00:01:16] degrees. On Friday it remains warm, it will be moderately
[00:01:19] cloudy, and in the evening during the night in the north and west
[00:01:23] some more clouds, possible short-term rain or
[00:01:26] showers. During the weekend and beginning of next week the weather.
[00:01:30] changeable cloudy, rarely with light rain or showers in most parts of
[00:01:33] the country, some areas remain dry, and the temperature will from
[00:01:37] Saturday be somewhat lower, we expect values below 30
[00:01:41] degrees.
[00:01:44] With this information we conclude the news, all
[00:01:48] information of the day and stories from our reporters you can find at any time on
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[00:01:54] night.
[00:02:17] Shattered glass, crumpled metal, wrecked cars, there's
[00:02:21] an entire science behind breaking things, now
[00:02:25] researchers are taking crash tests upper notch with
[00:02:28] real-time X-ray technology.
[00:02:30] It's loud and chaotic, but it helps make cars safer for
[00:02:33] everyone.
[00:02:38] All this and more on DW's science show,
[00:02:41] welcome to Tomorrow
[00:02:43] Today.
[00:02:46] Sometimes scientific progress begins with a
[00:02:49] bang.
[00:02:52] A few hours earlier, the researchers and engineers were
[00:02:56] preparing for a special kind of crash test.
[00:03:18] together, because there are only a handful of
[00:03:55] a stroke of luck to make a
[00:04:30] and industry are debating how to build the next generation of
[00:04:33] crash test dummies.
[00:04:36] during today's premiere, a dummy rides in the passenger seat.
[00:04:40] in future tests, x-ray diagnostics could reveal in real
[00:04:43] time what happens to occupants and vehicle systems in a
[00:04:46] crash. Bitte starten.
[00:04:49] Yeah, the car hits the pole at 30
[00:04:53] km/ hour. slowed by
[00:04:56] high-speed cameras, the split second crash can be studied in detail.
[00:05:00] Wenn ich jetzt mal hinein
[00:05:01] sehe,
[00:05:07] schon ganz gut,
[00:05:10] gespannt, was man davonbild sehen kann.
[00:08:12] is that until recently almost all crash test dummies were
[00:08:16] modeled on male bodies, not female
[00:08:19] ones, and in many other areas of life, women
[00:08:22] still have to adapt to conditions designed for
[00:08:25] men. Take football, for
[00:08:28] example, if men played under the same conditions as
[00:08:32] women, how would they cope? A
[00:08:36] one of kind experiment shows why women are the real
[00:08:39] heroes on the pitch.
[00:08:48] This may be the biggest football pitch in the
[00:08:51] world. It wouldn't fit inside a stadium, so it's
[00:08:55] being marked out a polo field
[00:08:57] instead.
[00:09:00] Even the goals are supersized, about
[00:09:03] 25% larger than usual. Everything
[00:09:06] set for two super league youth teams here in Switzerland to give
[00:09:10] it a test. They take a look at the oversized
[00:09:13] setup,
[00:09:16] too big, it'll be a
[00:09:18] challenge,
[00:09:21] to put men under the same conditions that women face,
[00:09:25] everything has to scale
[00:09:26] up.
[00:09:29] this pitch is 132 m long and 84 m
[00:09:33] wide, a standard pitch is just
[00:09:36] 105 by 68
[00:09:37] meters.
[00:09:41] these numbers come from
[00:10:12] rules as men, even though they don't share the same physical
[00:10:16] traits. For example, average women are
[00:10:19] shorter and have less muscle
[00:10:21] mass.
[00:10:23] This experiments. to close that gap by flipping the
[00:10:27] conditions,
[00:10:30] so how do these two youth teams cope with what women deal with in every
[00:10:34] game? they're covering far more ground than usual, so the pace
[00:10:37] picks up slowly, and the ball is bigger and
[00:10:41] 200 grams heavier, another layer of
[00:10:44] challenge.
[00:10:49] the ball was custom made for this experiment based on the
[00:10:52] Norwegian studies specs.
[00:10:55] on the right for comparison, a standard ball used by
[00:10:59] both men and women, which is noticeably smaller and
[00:11:02] lighter.
[00:11:05] it takes 56 minutes, not 45 to reach
[00:11:07] halftime. the players are
[00:11:10] exhausted,
[00:11:13] that was awful, what women go through is
[00:11:15] crazy,
[00:11:18] my legs can really feel it, it was
[00:11:21] tough, especially the ball and the side.
[00:11:34] and on it goes with the second half,
[00:11:38] at least the oversized goal means more scoring chances, with
[00:11:41] shots this high, the goalkeeper doesn't stand a
[00:11:44] chance.
[00:11:47] for women, goals like this are standard. you can see it
[00:11:51] when goalkeeper Tamara beadaman trains on a regular-sized goal.
[00:11:55] "and it's not just the height that
[00:11:58] matters. You can see it here, a man might reach that with his foot. She has
[00:12:02] to dive for it, using her foot isn't an
[00:12:04] option.
[00:12:09] Now they flip the setup, a smaller goal scaled for women
[00:12:13] who average 1,70 in
[00:12:15] height.
[00:12:17] It measures 6 m 76 wide and
[00:12:21] 2 m 25 high, about 15% smaller than..."
[00:12:25] standard
[00:12:28] and sure enough, with fairly sized goal, it's noticeably
[00:12:32] harder for the coach to
[00:12:33] score,
[00:12:42] you can tell it's smaller, it's cool, you can save balls you
[00:12:45] normally wouldn't reach,
[00:12:49] even though it's fun, this goaly still prefers the bigger
[00:12:53] goals.
[00:12:58] back to the men on the giant pitch,
[00:13:02] the final whistle after 112 minutes,
[00:13:05] but the score is tied, so now it's penalties on the
[00:13:09] mega
[00:13:09] goal.
[00:13:15] game over, what's the player's
[00:13:17] verdict? it was fun, but
[00:13:20] exhausted.
[00:13:25] so we show the Norwegian research team the supersize
[00:13:28] experiment, what do they think? it's
[00:13:32] so difficult to get the ball to move. this is not
[00:13:36] only about football, it's also about
[00:13:39] being fair to women, we were just making a point,
[00:13:43] making yeah, a statement so that people would understand
[00:13:47] about the differences.
[00:13:50] a fresh perspective on women's football, something this
[00:13:53] unique experiment. definitely
[00:13:55] delivers,
[00:14:00] and now to a discovery that made headlines around the
[00:14:03] world, an Italian biologist accidentally
[00:14:06] found out that certain worms can eat plastic, and
[00:14:10] they might help tackle our growing waste problem.
[00:14:14] We visited the scientists to find out what it takes, beyond
[00:14:20] discovery like
[00:14:21] this.
[00:14:25] Everything about these animals is fascinating, they seem resistant
[00:14:28] to everything, to lack of oxygen, to cold. I
[00:14:32] mean, this is not scientifically proven yet. These are
[00:14:36] just observations, but if you keep them at
[00:14:38] 4° Celsius for many weeks, they don't
[00:14:41] die, they survive and they
[00:14:43] recover.
[00:14:47] For people who don't work with insects, to be honest, they're not very
[00:14:51] appealing. They look like the fly larvae you'd use for...
[00:14:57] but then you explain, but once you explain what they're capable of, people start to
[00:15:01] soften, they get curious,
[00:15:05] at some point you stop seeing the worm as just a worm and you start seeing the
[00:15:09] potential behind
[00:15:10] it.
[00:15:13] I'm Federica Bacchini, I'm a
[00:15:16] biologist and co-founder of a startup called Plastic
[00:15:19] Entropy, based
[00:15:20] here
[00:15:23] in, and I work on
[00:15:47] I realized the worms were making holes in the plastic and not just holes, I
[00:15:51] could make those with my finger, but actually transforming it into something
[00:15:55] different.
[00:15:57] I've always liked the environment, maybe it's a way escape the lab where you spend
[00:16:01] your entire life at the microscope,
[00:16:04] so I developed this hobby beekeeping. an amateur
[00:16:08] beekeeper,
[00:16:11] and as it happens, beehives are often plagued by insects, the wax
[00:16:15] worm,
[00:16:18] one day I was cleaning a beehive and tossed the worms infesting my
[00:16:21] beehive into a plastic bag. Within
[00:16:24] 40 minutes, half an hour, I noticed holes in the bag,
[00:16:28] then my curiosity became unstoppable, I had to investigate
[00:16:31] it.
[00:16:34] We found enzymes which the worms have in their saliva. And when
[00:16:38] these enzymes are isolated and reproduced in the lab, they
[00:16:42] can actually break down plastic. The
[00:16:45] major achievement was the discovery of those enzymes, and now we'll
[00:16:49] start producing the protein in the lab. That's when you feel
[00:16:52] really happy. When we made the first discovery, I
[00:16:56] wasn't employed. We managed to secure some funding, but
[00:17:00] it took two years to start again. Those two years and a bit were
[00:17:04] tough. We all know what's happening.
[00:17:37] So you don't want to release, you don't want to
[00:17:40] release millions of worms in an uncontrolled way, because then you
[00:17:44] have to collect the feces. You need a highly controlled environment to
[00:17:48] do that. That's why I advocate for the
[00:17:51] enzymes.
[00:17:54] Industry wants a solution in six months, something
[00:17:58] economically viable, but we can't provide that. We can't
[00:18:02] compete with incineration, with burning, with the
[00:18:05] burning, tough. And it's been tough. Knowing what I know
[00:18:09] now, maybe I would have thought twice. It's been a real
[00:18:12] challenge, really a challenge.
[00:18:16] Worms, worms, proteins,
[00:18:19] polymers, degradation, I didn't know anything about those
[00:18:22] topics. And when I don't know something, I
[00:18:25] collaborate.
[00:18:28] I'm not afraid to make a mistake. Sometimes I make a mistake and think, wow,
[00:18:32] that wasn't great, but it doesn't matter because you learn from
[00:18:35] it. My connection with started a few years
[00:18:38] ago when I came here to give a TED Talk at Science Pool near
[00:18:42] Rams. That was interesting. Eventually we moved
[00:18:45] here. We're based in an incubator and get a little bit of
[00:18:48] funding, environmental funding. We should all
[00:18:52] work together, really stick
[00:18:55] these animals and we're still finding more. But there's
[00:18:59] no coordinated field. We've never had a meeting to get all of us
[00:19:03] together. That's what we need, because everyone working on their own won't
[00:19:06] get us anywhere. We won't get anywhere.
[00:19:18] Working together is also vital for adapting to climate
[00:19:22] change. For example, how can we keep permafrost from
[00:19:25] melting? When it thaws, frozen ground
[00:19:29] turns soft and unstable, posing a real risk,
[00:19:32] but there's a technology that could help make mountain peaks safe
[00:19:36] again.
[00:19:40] High in the Swiss Alps, the ground is thawing, and earth
[00:19:43] that should be solid is starting to shift. To
[00:19:47] keep the summit station on Piz Nair safe and
[00:19:50] stable, a crew is drilling for a
[00:19:52] thermosiphon, a system designed to slow the melting of the
[00:19:56] permafrost. It's the first of its kind in the Alps and
[00:20:00] still
[00:20:00] untested.
[00:20:50] The drilling continues 45 meters beneath the summit station,
[00:20:54] which is still in operation.
[00:20:56] Is Bro worried about the
[00:20:58] station?
[00:21:00] No, not at all. Seeing how well this is working shows that the
[00:21:04] summit station should stay safe for
[00:21:06] decades.
[00:21:10] Next, the thermosiphon will slide into these bore
[00:21:12] holes. Its job is to prevent waste heat from the
[00:21:16] station from damaging the permafrost.
[00:21:20] The sealed pipes contain compressed carbon
[00:21:23] dioxide. In the winter, when the ground is warmer than
[00:21:26] the air, liquid CO2 at the bottom heats up,
[00:21:30] evaporates and rises as gas. Above ground, the
[00:21:34] condenser cools the gas, turning it back into liquid which flows
[00:21:38] down again. This cycle continuously draws heat from the
[00:21:41] ground, and just a few degrees colder makes all the
[00:21:44] difference.
[00:21:48] The thermosiphon uses no external energy, so it's cost
[00:21:52] effective and eco-friendly,
[00:21:55] but it only works when the air is colder than the
[00:21:57] ground.
[00:22:01] In the winter, the ground should cool down enough so that the temperature there stays
[00:22:05] below the freezing point, and the ice survives the
[00:22:08] summer.
[00:22:10] This system gives nature a boost by removing heat
[00:22:14] from the ground, making the ground colder than it would naturally
[00:22:18] be.
[00:22:54] It will make it cost more to build on permafrost, but
[00:22:58] it's worth it. The structures will last much
[00:23:01] longer.
[00:23:04] Here in Piz Nair, the team is planning for the next 30 years,
[00:23:08] investing about 2 million Euros in this underground
[00:23:11] cooling system. Whether and how well it works in
[00:23:15] the Alps will only become clear once next year's data
[00:23:19] comes in.
[00:23:23] Climate change in the ocean means rising water
[00:23:26] temperatures, less oxygen and dying fish and
[00:23:30] corals. Fighting this is a race against
[00:23:33] time, something that Boris Herrmann knows
[00:23:36] well. The professional sailor competes in
[00:23:39] races around the globe, collecting scientific data for
[00:23:42] ocean research along the way. And now he's
[00:23:46] turned a sailboat into a very special research vessel.
[00:23:52] the Azur in the south of France, Boris Herrmann's
[00:23:56] research sailboat, the Malizia Explorer, is on its main
[00:23:59] voyage. Friends, supporters and scientists are on board
[00:24:03] along with the skipper in special mission
[00:24:05] gear.
[00:24:08] We're designing our own work outfit, this patch has all
[00:24:11] the flags of the countries we plan to visit
[00:24:13] in dem ersten Jahr unserer
[00:24:17] Mission.
[00:24:20] way past rows of motorized luxury yachts.
[00:24:23] Boris Herrmann loves the variety of boats
[00:24:26] here. The Yacht Club is a founding partner of the
[00:24:29] sailing team and now the setting for the boat's
[00:24:32] christening. It takes a firm swing to
[00:24:36] finally send the champagne down the hull. The ship's
[00:24:40] godmother is 89-year-old Sylvia Earle, an American
[00:24:43] pioneer of ocean research. We
[00:24:46] know that we're in trouble, that the ocean is in trouble. We've
[00:24:50] seen about half of the life extracted from the
[00:24:53] ocean during my lifetime. That's not
[00:24:57] good news. The only good news is we know this.
[00:25:01] We can measure it. The new research vessel is a labor of
[00:25:05] love. It's 26 m long and has an aluminum
[00:25:08] hull. Herrmann gives us a tour. The
[00:25:12] stern can fold all the way open, which gives us a big loading
[00:25:15] platform.
[00:25:17] The yacht has room for three crew members and eight.
[00:26:03] from Germany's AWI Institute, is the first scientist
[00:26:06] on board. She keeps an eye on the readings from the ship measurement
[00:26:10] station, which continuously records temperature, salinity and
[00:26:13] carbon dioxide levels in the seawater. I'm a
[00:26:17] big expert on the CO2, for example, and one of the things that keep
[00:26:20] changing is that the values keep getting higher and higher, so I'm always scared that
[00:26:24] it's my machine that is not working, but I realized that it's not my machine that is not working,
[00:26:28] it's that because we keep increasing the concentration of CO2
[00:26:31] in the atmosphere. It's also translated in the ocean. The
[00:26:35] findings are unsettling. The oceans appear far more affected by
[00:26:38] climate change than we thought. Olivier is planning
[00:26:41] the vessel's first big mission. She's convinced that sailboats have a
[00:26:45] real future in ocean research.
[00:26:49] They can go very close to shore, they can go very close to icebergs, for
[00:26:52] example. But also when we're a climate scientist, it's
[00:26:56] very important to reduce carbon footprints, and so using
[00:27:00] sails is very important, important for me because
[00:27:04] we can do our research at a lower climate cost. Herrmann
[00:27:07] has brought many renowned marine institutes on board as
[00:27:10] partners. Research funding and sponsorships are meant to
[00:27:14] cover the costs.
[00:27:17] The first mission will focus on the Southern Ocean and Antarctica,
[00:27:21] but first the crew wants to use the sailboat to raise awareness for climate
[00:27:25] protection.
[00:27:28] They head out from their glittering homeport of Monaco on their first
[00:27:33] to help protect the
[00:27:33] climate.
[00:27:38] What are stars made of? How many colors can
[00:27:41] butterflies see? Could robots have babies one
[00:27:45] day? Do you have a science question? Then
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[00:28:02] That's all for now, but we hope you'll join us again next time for
[00:28:06] more exciting stories from the world of science and technology
[00:28:10] here tomorrow today. Bye-bye!