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Spectroscopy and theory shed light on excitons in semiconductors
Many electronic devices - from solar panels to TV screens - simply wouldn’t work without semiconductors. Organic semiconductors are a new category of semiconductors. The way they work work is largely determined by their behaviour when light excites electrons, forming “excitons” in the material. Researchers have now made very fast and very precise images of these excitons – in fact, accurate to one quadrillionth of a second and one billionth of a metre. Results appeared in Nature Communications. more…
Human remains from Palau return home
In a formal ceremony on Monday 25 March, the University of Göttingen will hand over the ancestral human remains to Palau. Human remains from Palau that are currently still in the State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony in Leipzig will also be returned: a skull, a plaster cast of a skull and a sample of hair. more…
First heat map for individual red blood cells
Entropy is often associated with disorder, but in biology it is related to energy efficiency and is closely linked to metabolism, the set of chemical reactions that sustain life. An international research team with the participation of Göttingen University developed a novel methodology for the measurement of entropy production at the scale of a nanometer. The new approach enabled the scientists to measure the heat flow, known as the entropy production rate, of single red blood cells. more…
Exhibition “Unpacking Colonialism – Discussing human remains in German collections”
There are two Göttingen University collections that contain a large number of human remains which were taken from areas that were former colonies of Germany or other countries in Europe. Most of these human remains were taken by researchers, travellers, colonial officials or traders – against the wishes of the local populations. Robbery and grave-looting were not uncommon at that time. more…
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Health, happiness and prosperity in the New Year!
For 2024, we would like to wish health, happiness and personal and professional success to all students, staff, guests and alumni of Göttingen University and Göttingen Campus. more…
In memory of Professor Rebekka Habermas
The University of Göttingen mourns the loss of Professor Rebekka Habermas, who passed away on 21 December 2023. Habermas held the post of Professor of Modern History at the Faculty of Humanities since 2000. Among her many roles, she was Editor of the journal "Historische Anthropologie", a reviewer for the European Research Council and, since 2019, a member of the German Science and Humanities Council, Wissenschaftsrat. more…