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Award for plant biochemist -
Pressemitteilung, 22.09.2023
Professor Ivo Feußner, whose expertise is in plant biochemistry, has received the European Lipid Science Award 2023. The European Federation for the Science and Technology of Lipids (Euro Fed …
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Unexpected curveball in miniature -
Pressemitteilung, 21.09.2023
Whether you are familiar with the term “Magnus effect” or not, you have certainly seen it in action. It is when a spinning ball – for instance in football, cricket or baseball – bends away fro…
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A plea from experts: stop personifying plants -
Pressemitteilung, 20.09.2023
Popular science books are all the rage. Their aim is to convey scientific topics to interested members of the public as clearly and entertainingly as possible. To succeed, authors describe the…
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Is there more to palm oil than deforestation? -
Pressemitteilung, 18.09.2023
Palm oil is the world's most produced and consumed vegetable oil and everyone knows that its production can damage the environment. But do consumers have the full picture? In fact, replacing p…
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Precisely arranging nanoparticles -
Pressemitteilung, 15.09.2023
In the incredibly small world of molecules, the elementary building blocks – the atoms – join together in a very regular pattern. In contrast, in the macroscopic world with its larger particle…
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Majority rule in complex mixtures -
Pressemitteilung, 13.09.2023
The very first life on earth is thought to have developed from “protocells” – liquid mixtures of many different types of molecules. Researchers at Göttingen University have now shown that in s…
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Printers’ widows in early modern Germany -
Pressemitteilung, 05.09.2023
The historian Dr Saskia Limbach at the University of Göttingen has received a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). For a period of five years, the ERC will fund her project…
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Fossil spines reveal deep sea’s past -
Pressemitteilung, 01.09.2023
A research team led by the University of Göttingen has now provided the first fossil evidence for a stable colonisation of the deep sea floor by higher invertebrates for at least 104 million y…
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Algae provide clues about 600 million years of plant evolution -
Pressemitteilung, 30.08.2023
The Earth's surface is covered by plants, exhibiting a wide range of diversity, from mosses to trees. This astounding biodiversity came into existence due to an evolutionary event that happene…
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Curious and cryptic: new leaf insects discovered -
Pressemitteilung, 28.08.2023
An international research team including the University of Göttingen has described seven previously unknown species of leaf insects, also known as walking leaves. The insects belong to the sti…
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University of Göttingen announces Germany and Lower Saxony Scholarships -
Pressemitteilung, 17.08.2023
The University of Göttingen is inviting applications for this year's round of the "Deutschlandstipendium" and the "Niedersachsenstipendium". From 1 to 30 September 2023, students at Göttingen …
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Looking deep into the Network -
Pressemitteilung, 27.07.2023
Artificial neural networks are everywhere in research and technology, as well as in everyday technologies such as speech recognition. Despite this, it is still unclear to researchers what is e…
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Patterns of biodiversity unveiled -
Pressemitteilung, 24.07.2023
Understanding the origins and preservation of biodiversity is crucial as human impact continues to threaten our planet’s rich variety of life. Often overlooked, narrow-ranged and evolutionary …
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Mixed cropping enhances beneficial bugs and reduces pests -
Pressemitteilung, 20.07.2023
Agricultural land use is a major contributor to the global decline in biodiversity – especially farming single crops on a massive scale. Mixing crops can counteract this: in fields where diffe…
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Rainforest protection also with economic value -
Pressemitteilung, 19.07.2023
Rainforest destruction means not only loss of biodiversity, but also high social costs from greenhouse gas emissions. An international team of researchers has quantified changes in forest loss…
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