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Top scores for academic subjects at Göttingen University -
Pressemitteilung, 17.04.2024
Good results for the University of Göttingen: in the most recent subject ranking "QS World University Rankings by Subject", Göttingen’s Agriculture and Forestry is ranked first in Germany and …
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Quantum electronics: Charge travels like light in bilayer graphene -
Pressemitteilung, 12.04.2024
An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has demonstrated experimentally that electrons in naturally occurring double-layer graphene move like particles without any ma…
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Prestigious awards for the humanities at Göttingen University -
Pressemitteilung, 11.04.2024
Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Irene Schneider and linguist Professor Hedde Zeijlstra from the University of Göttingen have each been awarded an Advanced Grant from the European Rese…
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Finds at Schöningen show wood was crucial raw material 300,000 years ago -
Pressemitteilung, 03.04.2024
Extensive excavations in the Schöningen open-cast coal mine have been yielding many wooden objects from a layer dating from the end of a warm interglacial period 300,000 years ago. The items s…
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Human remains from Palau return home -
Pressemitteilung, 26.03.2024
The University of Göttingen and the State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony have handed over ancestral human remains to a delegation from the Republic of Palau. The human remains from the col…
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Exhibition “Me – You – Us: Social Relationships in Humans and other Primates” -
Pressemitteilung, 20.03.2024
Humans are social beings. We have diverse social relationships, learn from others and have to define our role within groups. In this respect, we are not so different from our closest relatives…
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Spectroscopy and theory shed light on excitons in semiconductors -
Pressemitteilung, 19.03.2024
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 …
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Fairy circles: plant water stress causes Namibia's gaps in grass -
Pressemitteilung, 19.03.2024
Namibia's legendary fairy circles are mysterious, circular, bald patches in the dry grasslands on the edge of the Namib Desert. Their formation has been researched for decades and has recently…
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Human remains from Palau return home -
Pressemitteilung, 11.03.2024
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 Ethnogr…
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First heat map for individual red blood cells -
Pressemitteilung, 02.03.2024
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 internatio…
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Exhibition “Unpacking Colonialism – Discussing human remains in German collections” -
Pressemitteilung, 26.02.2024
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 …
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High resolution techniques reveal clues in 3.5 billion-year-old biomass -
Pressemitteilung, 21.02.2024
To learn about the first organisms on our planet, researchers have to analyse the rocks of the early Earth. These can only be found in a few places on the Earth. The Pilbara Craton in Western …
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Converting rainforest to plantation impacts food webs and biodiversity -
Pressemitteilung, 20.02.2024
Every day, new areas of rainforests are converted into plantations, drastically changing tropical biodiversity and the way the ecosystem functions. Yet, the current understanding of the conseq…
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Digitalisation in the healthcare system -
Pressemitteilung, 15.02.2024
Digitalisation offers enormous opportunities within the healthcare sector. However, in practice, digital instruments often do not meet the expectations of medical staff, who also need to acqui…
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Why do(n’t) people support being nudged towards healthier diets? -
Pressemitteilung, 14.02.2024
You may not realise it, but “nudge” has been used by businesses, policy-makers and governments for years to prod the public into making different choices. Small changes in our environment can …
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