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Courses at the Technische Universität München cover all areas of the natural and engineering sciences, along with medicine and life sciences. The medical faculty includes Munich's Rechts der Isar University Hospital and the German Heart Center Munich at TU München, which is affiliated to the hospital. Life sciences as taught by the TUM cover the complete field of food and nutrition, and are studied at the Weihenstephan Center of Food and Life Sciences at the Freising campus. Sport science, which is offered by the university as a legacy of the 1992 Olympic Games, acts as a bridge between all the other subjects and is now organized into a separate faculty. Central institutes and facilities are concerned with longer-term areas of cross-faculty and inter-departmental teaching and research. One of these, the new FRM II research neutron source is a special research centre of national and international significance. Completed in 2001, this state-of-the-art 20 megawatt neutron reactor is the successor to the FRM I, the first German neutron source. Fondly known as the 'nuclear egg' due to its striking oval shape, the FRM I was built in 1957 in Garching, and has since led on to formation of the Garching campus, complete with its cluster of university and extra-mural research establishments.
 | | Spider silks, the ecological materials of tomorrow? | 30 November 2004 - Technische Universitaet München
Spider silks could become the intelligent materials of the future, according to a review article published this month in the journal Microbial Cell Factories. The characteristics of spider silk could have applications in areas ranging from medicine to ballistics.
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