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Human remains from Palau return home

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 collections in Göttingen are those of seven individuals, those from the State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony those of three individuals. The formal handover took place on Monday 25 March 2024. more…


Exhibition “Me – You – Us: Social Relationships in Humans and other Primates”

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, apes. This exhibition explores the question of how social relationships in humans and other primates develop at an early age, how they are later on regulated and what function they serve. It takes a closer look at behavioural research in humans and primates and the methods that are used to study them. You can visit the exhibition from 25 April to 3 November 2024 in the Forum Wissen – the knowledge museum of the University of Göttingen – located Berliner Straße 28, 37073 Göttingen. more…


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…


Fairy circles: plant water stress causes Namibia's gaps in grass

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 been the subject of much debate. With extensive fieldwork, researchers from the University of Göttingen in Germany and Ben Gurion University in Israel investigated how freshly germinated grass dies inside the fairy circle. Their results show that the grass withers due to a lack of water inside the fairy circle. 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…

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