Illustration Photo: Bacteria to fight tooth decay (credits: BASF / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0))

Illustration Photo: When the Ashbya gossypii fungus was first described in 1926, the tiny filamentous fungus was regarded with suspicion: as a tropical plant pest. Cotton plants that it infested no longer grew properly and citrus fruits dried out. But Ashbya gossypii can also make a positive contribution to the health of humans and animals. If vegetable oil as well as other nutrients are added to it, it produces vitamin B2, which is of key importance for many animals. It helps the human and animal organism to convert proteins, fats and starches into energy. At BASF the vitamin is produced via fermentation in special stirred tank reactors made of stainless steel. Here the temperature, pH value and ventilation are adjusted to suit the fungus so that it produces as much vitamin B2 as possible. BASF produces more than 1,000 metric tons of the vitamin annually and processes it, for example, into the animal feed additive Lutavit® SG 80. (credits: BASF / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0))

Illustration Photo: Smart devices such as Smart Glasses and the Coaster® provide important information to humans. "Plant Adapter" is an industrial data gateway developed by experts at the Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology IWU in Chemnitz, Germany. A combination of hardware and software, the "Plant Adapter" is a solution for universal connection of machines and other components in manufacturing and production infrastructure. It collects a wide variety of production and machine information and prepares it for reading and processing on a platform-independent basis. © Photo Fraunhofer IPT, Fraunhofer IML https://www.fraunhofer.de/en/research/current-research/production-4-0.html

Illustration Photo: Smart devices such as Smart Glasses and the Coaster® provide important information to humans. "Plant Adapter" is an industrial data gateway developed by experts at the Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology IWU in Chemnitz, Germany. A combination of hardware and software, the "Plant Adapter" is a solution for universal connection of machines and other components in manufacturing and production infrastructure. It collects a wide variety of production and machine information and prepares it for reading and processing on a platform-independent basis. © Photo Fraunhofer IPT, Fraunhofer IML https://www.fraunhofer.de/en/research/current-research/production-4-0.html

Illustration Photo: Waco Distribution Center Conveyer (credits: Army & Air Force Exchange Service PAO / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.0))

Illustration Photo: Waco Distribution Center Conveyer (credits: Army & Air Force Exchange Service PAO / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.0))

Danielle Bryant, right, an oceanographer from the Naval Oceanographic Office, establishes a satellite connection to the Glider Operations Center at NAVOCEANO before launching the seaglider unmanned underwater vessel from the Military Sealift Command oceanographic survey ship USNS Henson. The vessel is designed to collect physical oceanography data in deep water. Henson is underway off the coast of Fortaleza, Brazil for Oceanographic-Southern Partnership Station 2010 conducting survey demonstrations with the Brazilian Directorate of Hydrograph and Navigation. Oceanographic-Southern Partnership Station is an oceanographic surveying and information exchange program between subject matter experts with partner nations in the U.S. Southern Command area of responsibility.

Illustration Photo: Total manufactured polystyrene containing post-consumer recycled polystyrene (credits: PressReleaseFinder / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0))

Illustration Photo: Total manufactured polystyrene containing post-consumer recycled polystyrene (credits: PressReleaseFinder / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0))

Illustration Photo: Catfish ponds near the Golden Triangle Regional Airport near Starkville, Mississippi, USA (credits: Roger Smith / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0))

Illustration Photo: Catfish ponds near the Golden Triangle Regional Airport near Starkville, Mississippi, USA (credits: Roger Smith / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0))

Illustration Photo: Orient forest, Champagne-Ardenne, France (credits: Jan Buelinckx / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.0))

Illustration Photo: Orient forest, Champagne-Ardenne, France (credits: Jan Buelinckx / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.0))

Figure: Artist’s depiction of a service prototype at CEATEC JAPAN 2017 (credit: NTT)

Figure: Artist’s depiction of a service prototype at CEATEC JAPAN 2017 (credit: NTT)

Illustration Photo: Artificial Intelligence (Public Domain from Pixabay.com)

Illustration Photo: Artificial Intelligence (Public Domain from Pixabay.com)

Photo: In future, self-driving cars will navigate fluently through the city – without a steering wheel, without a driver (Seoul). Copyright: AUDI AG

Photo: For the laboratory experiment at the Fraunhofer Institute in Stuttgart, Audi has specially built a driving simulator that reproduces the situation of automated driving: with a variable interior and without a steering wheel. Large-scale projections convey the impression of a city drive by night. Via displays, the researchers can introduce digital distractions, the windows can be dimmed, and the color of the lighting and noise background change. Copyright: AUDI AG

Illustration Photo: Cattle farm (Public Domain from Pixabay.com)

Illustration Photo: Cattle farm (Public Domain from Pixabay.com)

Illustration Photo: 3D Printed Motorcycle (credits: Steve Jurvetson / Flickr Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0))

Illustration Photo: 3D Printed Motorcycle (credits: Steve Jurvetson / Flickr Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0))

Figure: Liquid-handling Lego robots enable hands-on learning of modern biotechnology concepts (credits: Lukas C. Gerber, Agnes Calasanz-Kaiser, Luke Hyman, Kateryna Voitiuk, Uday Patil,Ingmar H. Riedel-Kruse)

Summary of the identified challenges and solutions of Blockchain (Credits: Jesse Yli-Huumo, Deokyoon Ko, Sujin Choi , Sooyong Park, Kari Smolander)

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks with a student engaged in biomass research as he visits the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi, India (Public Domain)

Example of commercial products derived from research activities conducted in Universiti Putra Malaysia (Credits: Mohd-Azmi, M. L., Jesse, F. F. A., Sarah, S. A., Roslan, S., Zuraidah, A. and Hambali, I. U.)

Researcher at Surya University in Indonesia (Credit: Surya University www.suryaresearch.com)

Researcher at Surya University in Indonesia (Credit: Surya University www.suryaresearch.com)

Trakt-Boats stand in Lesser Poland Innovations Exhibition (Credit: commons.wikimedia.org User:Mateusz Giełczyński)