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00:00:00for congressional approval. This is the third meaning resolution this summer, but none
00:00:03has reached the president himself who has to sign it. It is certain
00:00:07that Trump would veto it. Oh, under circumstances of a
00:00:10very thin Republican majority, the opposition Democrats had a majority
00:00:14for passing the resolution provided by four Republican
00:00:17representatives. All Democratic representatives voted for
00:00:20the resolution.
00:00:27At the end of our news program, the weather forecast follows, brought to us by Sara
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00:00:32Although we have already stepped into the second half of September, the weather
00:00:36these days reminds us that summer still officially
00:00:39lasts. Ahead of us are sunny, warm days, but fresh
00:00:42mornings, the temperature will then during the day be above
00:00:45average. Over our region, a field of slightly
00:00:49elevated atmospheric pressure and warm air masses remains, so the weather
00:00:52in the coming days will be stable with weak to moderate development of daytime
00:00:56cloudiness. On Thursday, it will be sunny,
00:00:59warm. With moderate cloud development, wind weak to
00:01:02moderate, it will be dry without precipitation, the minimum temperature
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00:02:17Shattered glass, crumpled metal, wrecked cars, there's
00:02:21an entire science behind breaking things, now
00:02:25researchers are taking crash tests upper notch with
00:02:28real-time X-ray technology.
00:02:30It's loud and chaotic, but it helps make cars safer for
00:02:33everyone.
00:02:38All this and more on DW's science show,
00:02:41welcome to Tomorrow
00:02:43Today.
00:02:46Sometimes scientific progress begins with a
00:02:49bang.
00:02:52A few hours earlier, the researchers and engineers were
00:02:56preparing for a special kind of crash test.
00:03:18together, because there are only a handful of
00:03:55a stroke of luck to make a
00:04:30and industry are debating how to build the next generation of
00:04:33crash test dummies.
00:04:36during today's premiere, a dummy rides in the passenger seat.
00:04:40in future tests, x-ray diagnostics could reveal in real
00:04:43time what happens to occupants and vehicle systems in a
00:04:46crash. Bitte starten.
00:04:49Yeah, the car hits the pole at 30
00:04:53km/ hour. slowed by
00:04:56high-speed cameras, the split second crash can be studied in detail.
00:05:00Wenn ich jetzt mal hinein
00:05:01sehe,
00:05:07schon ganz gut,
00:05:10gespannt, was man davonbild sehen kann.
00:08:12is that until recently almost all crash test dummies were
00:08:16modeled on male bodies, not female
00:08:19ones, and in many other areas of life, women
00:08:22still have to adapt to conditions designed for
00:08:25men. Take football, for
00:08:28example, if men played under the same conditions as
00:08:32women, how would they cope? A
00:08:36one of kind experiment shows why women are the real
00:08:39heroes on the pitch.
00:08:48This may be the biggest football pitch in the
00:08:51world. It wouldn't fit inside a stadium, so it's
00:08:55being marked out a polo field
00:08:57instead.
00:09:00Even the goals are supersized, about
00:09:0325% larger than usual. Everything
00:09:06set for two super league youth teams here in Switzerland to give
00:09:10it a test. They take a look at the oversized
00:09:13setup,
00:09:16too big, it'll be a
00:09:18challenge,
00:09:21to put men under the same conditions that women face,
00:09:25everything has to scale
00:09:26up.
00:09:29this pitch is 132 m long and 84 m
00:09:33wide, a standard pitch is just
00:09:36105 by 68
00:09:37meters.
00:09:41these numbers come from
00:10:12rules as men, even though they don't share the same physical
00:10:16traits. For example, average women are
00:10:19shorter and have less muscle
00:10:21mass.
00:10:23This experiments. to close that gap by flipping the
00:10:27conditions,
00:10:30so how do these two youth teams cope with what women deal with in every
00:10:34game? they're covering far more ground than usual, so the pace
00:10:37picks up slowly, and the ball is bigger and
00:10:41200 grams heavier, another layer of
00:10:44challenge.
00:10:49the ball was custom made for this experiment based on the
00:10:52Norwegian studies specs.
00:10:55on the right for comparison, a standard ball used by
00:10:59both men and women, which is noticeably smaller and
00:11:02lighter.
00:11:05it takes 56 minutes, not 45 to reach
00:11:07halftime. the players are
00:11:10exhausted,
00:11:13that was awful, what women go through is
00:11:15crazy,
00:11:18my legs can really feel it, it was
00:11:21tough, especially the ball and the side.
00:11:34and on it goes with the second half,
00:11:38at least the oversized goal means more scoring chances, with
00:11:41shots this high, the goalkeeper doesn't stand a
00:11:44chance.
00:11:47for women, goals like this are standard. you can see it
00:11:51when goalkeeper Tamara beadaman trains on a regular-sized goal.
00:11:55"and it's not just the height that
00:11:58matters. You can see it here, a man might reach that with his foot. She has
00:12:02to dive for it, using her foot isn't an
00:12:04option.
00:12:09Now they flip the setup, a smaller goal scaled for women
00:12:13who average 1,70 in
00:12:15height.
00:12:17It measures 6 m 76 wide and
00:12:212 m 25 high, about 15% smaller than..."
00:12:25standard
00:12:28and sure enough, with fairly sized goal, it's noticeably
00:12:32harder for the coach to
00:12:33score,
00:12:42you can tell it's smaller, it's cool, you can save balls you
00:12:45normally wouldn't reach,
00:12:49even though it's fun, this goaly still prefers the bigger
00:12:53goals.
00:12:58back to the men on the giant pitch,
00:13:02the final whistle after 112 minutes,
00:13:05but the score is tied, so now it's penalties on the
00:13:09mega
00:13:09goal.
00:13:15game over, what's the player's
00:13:17verdict? it was fun, but
00:13:20exhausted.
00:13:25so we show the Norwegian research team the supersize
00:13:28experiment, what do they think? it's
00:13:32so difficult to get the ball to move. this is not
00:13:36only about football, it's also about
00:13:39being fair to women, we were just making a point,
00:13:43making yeah, a statement so that people would understand
00:13:47about the differences.
00:13:50a fresh perspective on women's football, something this
00:13:53unique experiment. definitely
00:13:55delivers,
00:14:00and now to a discovery that made headlines around the
00:14:03world, an Italian biologist accidentally
00:14:06found out that certain worms can eat plastic, and
00:14:10they might help tackle our growing waste problem.
00:14:14We visited the scientists to find out what it takes, beyond
00:14:20discovery like
00:14:21this.
00:14:25Everything about these animals is fascinating, they seem resistant
00:14:28to everything, to lack of oxygen, to cold. I
00:14:32mean, this is not scientifically proven yet. These are
00:14:36just observations, but if you keep them at
00:14:384° Celsius for many weeks, they don't
00:14:41die, they survive and they
00:14:43recover.
00:14:47For people who don't work with insects, to be honest, they're not very
00:14:51appealing. They look like the fly larvae you'd use for...
00:14:57but then you explain, but once you explain what they're capable of, people start to
00:15:01soften, they get curious,
00:15:05at some point you stop seeing the worm as just a worm and you start seeing the
00:15:09potential behind
00:15:10it.
00:15:13I'm Federica Bacchini, I'm a
00:15:16biologist and co-founder of a startup called Plastic
00:15:19Entropy, based
00:15:20here
00:15:23in, and I work on
00:15:47I realized the worms were making holes in the plastic and not just holes, I
00:15:51could make those with my finger, but actually transforming it into something
00:15:55different.
00:15:57I've always liked the environment, maybe it's a way escape the lab where you spend
00:16:01your entire life at the microscope,
00:16:04so I developed this hobby beekeeping. an amateur
00:16:08beekeeper,
00:16:11and as it happens, beehives are often plagued by insects, the wax
00:16:15worm,
00:16:18one day I was cleaning a beehive and tossed the worms infesting my
00:16:21beehive into a plastic bag. Within
00:16:2440 minutes, half an hour, I noticed holes in the bag,
00:16:28then my curiosity became unstoppable, I had to investigate
00:16:31it.
00:16:34We found enzymes which the worms have in their saliva. And when
00:16:38these enzymes are isolated and reproduced in the lab, they
00:16:42can actually break down plastic. The
00:16:45major achievement was the discovery of those enzymes, and now we'll
00:16:49start producing the protein in the lab. That's when you feel
00:16:52really happy. When we made the first discovery, I
00:16:56wasn't employed. We managed to secure some funding, but
00:17:00it took two years to start again. Those two years and a bit were
00:17:04tough. We all know what's happening.
00:17:37So you don't want to release, you don't want to
00:17:40release millions of worms in an uncontrolled way, because then you
00:17:44have to collect the feces. You need a highly controlled environment to
00:17:48do that. That's why I advocate for the
00:17:51enzymes.
00:17:54Industry wants a solution in six months, something
00:17:58economically viable, but we can't provide that. We can't
00:18:02compete with incineration, with burning, with the
00:18:05burning, tough. And it's been tough. Knowing what I know
00:18:09now, maybe I would have thought twice. It's been a real
00:18:12challenge, really a challenge.
00:18:16Worms, worms, proteins,
00:18:19polymers, degradation, I didn't know anything about those
00:18:22topics. And when I don't know something, I
00:18:25collaborate.
00:18:28I'm not afraid to make a mistake. Sometimes I make a mistake and think, wow,
00:18:32that wasn't great, but it doesn't matter because you learn from
00:18:35it. My connection with started a few years
00:18:38ago when I came here to give a TED Talk at Science Pool near
00:18:42Rams. That was interesting. Eventually we moved
00:18:45here. We're based in an incubator and get a little bit of
00:18:48funding, environmental funding. We should all
00:18:52work together, really stick
00:18:55these animals and we're still finding more. But there's
00:18:59no coordinated field. We've never had a meeting to get all of us
00:19:03together. That's what we need, because everyone working on their own won't
00:19:06get us anywhere. We won't get anywhere.
00:19:18Working together is also vital for adapting to climate
00:19:22change. For example, how can we keep permafrost from
00:19:25melting? When it thaws, frozen ground
00:19:29turns soft and unstable, posing a real risk,
00:19:32but there's a technology that could help make mountain peaks safe
00:19:36again.
00:19:40High in the Swiss Alps, the ground is thawing, and earth
00:19:43that should be solid is starting to shift. To
00:19:47keep the summit station on Piz Nair safe and
00:19:50stable, a crew is drilling for a
00:19:52thermosiphon, a system designed to slow the melting of the
00:19:56permafrost. It's the first of its kind in the Alps and
00:20:00still
00:20:00untested.
00:20:50The drilling continues 45 meters beneath the summit station,
00:20:54which is still in operation.
00:20:56Is Bro worried about the
00:20:58station?
00:21:00No, not at all. Seeing how well this is working shows that the
00:21:04summit station should stay safe for
00:21:06decades.
00:21:10Next, the thermosiphon will slide into these bore
00:21:12holes. Its job is to prevent waste heat from the
00:21:16station from damaging the permafrost.
00:21:20The sealed pipes contain compressed carbon
00:21:23dioxide. In the winter, when the ground is warmer than
00:21:26the air, liquid CO2 at the bottom heats up,
00:21:30evaporates and rises as gas. Above ground, the
00:21:34condenser cools the gas, turning it back into liquid which flows
00:21:38down again. This cycle continuously draws heat from the
00:21:41ground, and just a few degrees colder makes all the
00:21:44difference.
00:21:48The thermosiphon uses no external energy, so it's cost
00:21:52effective and eco-friendly,
00:21:55but it only works when the air is colder than the
00:21:57ground.
00:22:01In the winter, the ground should cool down enough so that the temperature there stays
00:22:05below the freezing point, and the ice survives the
00:22:08summer.
00:22:10This system gives nature a boost by removing heat
00:22:14from the ground, making the ground colder than it would naturally
00:22:18be.
00:22:54It will make it cost more to build on permafrost, but
00:22:58it's worth it. The structures will last much
00:23:01longer.
00:23:04Here in Piz Nair, the team is planning for the next 30 years,
00:23:08investing about 2 million Euros in this underground
00:23:11cooling system. Whether and how well it works in
00:23:15the Alps will only become clear once next year's data
00:23:19comes in.
00:23:23Climate change in the ocean means rising water
00:23:26temperatures, less oxygen and dying fish and
00:23:30corals. Fighting this is a race against
00:23:33time, something that Boris Herrmann knows
00:23:36well. The professional sailor competes in
00:23:39races around the globe, collecting scientific data for
00:23:42ocean research along the way. And now he's
00:23:46turned a sailboat into a very special research vessel.
00:23:52the Azur in the south of France, Boris Herrmann's
00:23:56research sailboat, the Malizia Explorer, is on its main
00:23:59voyage. Friends, supporters and scientists are on board
00:24:03along with the skipper in special mission
00:24:05gear.
00:24:08We're designing our own work outfit, this patch has all
00:24:11the flags of the countries we plan to visit
00:24:13in dem ersten Jahr unserer
00:24:17Mission.
00:24:20way past rows of motorized luxury yachts.
00:24:23Boris Herrmann loves the variety of boats
00:24:26here. The Yacht Club is a founding partner of the
00:24:29sailing team and now the setting for the boat's
00:24:32christening. It takes a firm swing to
00:24:36finally send the champagne down the hull. The ship's
00:24:40godmother is 89-year-old Sylvia Earle, an American
00:24:43pioneer of ocean research. We
00:24:46know that we're in trouble, that the ocean is in trouble. We've
00:24:50seen about half of the life extracted from the
00:24:53ocean during my lifetime. That's not
00:24:57good news. The only good news is we know this.
00:25:01We can measure it. The new research vessel is a labor of
00:25:05love. It's 26 m long and has an aluminum
00:25:08hull. Herrmann gives us a tour. The
00:25:12stern can fold all the way open, which gives us a big loading
00:25:15platform.
00:25:17The yacht has room for three crew members and eight.
00:26:03from Germany's AWI Institute, is the first scientist
00:26:06on board. She keeps an eye on the readings from the ship measurement
00:26:10station, which continuously records temperature, salinity and
00:26:13carbon dioxide levels in the seawater. I'm a
00:26:17big expert on the CO2, for example, and one of the things that keep
00:26:20changing is that the values keep getting higher and higher, so I'm always scared that
00:26:24it's my machine that is not working, but I realized that it's not my machine that is not working,
00:26:28it's that because we keep increasing the concentration of CO2
00:26:31in the atmosphere. It's also translated in the ocean. The
00:26:35findings are unsettling. The oceans appear far more affected by
00:26:38climate change than we thought. Olivier is planning
00:26:41the vessel's first big mission. She's convinced that sailboats have a
00:26:45real future in ocean research.
00:26:49They can go very close to shore, they can go very close to icebergs, for
00:26:52example. But also when we're a climate scientist, it's
00:26:56very important to reduce carbon footprints, and so using
00:27:00sails is very important, important for me because
00:27:04we can do our research at a lower climate cost. Herrmann
00:27:07has brought many renowned marine institutes on board as
00:27:10partners. Research funding and sponsorships are meant to
00:27:14cover the costs.
00:27:17The first mission will focus on the Southern Ocean and Antarctica,
00:27:21but first the crew wants to use the sailboat to raise awareness for climate
00:27:25protection.
00:27:28They head out from their glittering homeport of Monaco on their first
00:27:33to help protect the
00:27:33climate.
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