"The water levels are low, and it is also rather atypical for spring that the dry phase lasts so long," Florian Krekel, spokesman for the Rhine Waterways and Shipping Authority, told Germany's DPA ...

Merz says EU 'determination' prompted Trump's tariff pause, police raids target people-smuggling gang, dry weather to continue until the weekend, and more news from around Germany on Thursday.

Phase transitions and critical phenomena are the changes of a system from one regime or state to another exhibiting very different properties, and the unusual effects that occur on the boundary ...