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‘Asynchrony’ important in crop diversity for global food security -
Pressemitteilung, 10.12.2020
Ensuring global food security is a key challenge, especially because of climate change and increasing demand from a population expected to reach almost ten billion. A high diversity of crops c…
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Pilot phase of the Forum Wissen ensured -
Pressemitteilung, 03.12.2020
First Berlin, now Hannover: after the Federal Government of Germany decided to support the University of Göttingen's planned Forum Wissen for five years with a total of 7.15 million euros, the…
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Top marks for business studies and economics at Göttingen University -
Pressemitteilung, 01.12.2020
In the Centre for Higher Education (CHE)'s 2020 rankings, the University of Göttingen University has top positions in business studies (BWL) and economics (VWL). CHE evaluated Master's program…
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University of Göttingen awarded new Collaborative Research Centre -
Pressemitteilung, 27.11.2020
The German Research Foundation (DFG) funds a new Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) to start January 2021: ‘Mathematics of Experiment: the challenge of indirect measurements in the natural sc…
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The smell of cooperation -
Pressemitteilung, 25.11.2020
Despite their reputation, rats are surprisingly sociable and actually regularly help each other out with tasks. Researchers at the Universities of Göttingen, Bern and St Andrews have now shown…
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Detecting bacteria with fluorescent nanosensors -
Pressemitteilung, 25.11.2020
Researchers from Bochum, Göttingen, Duisburg and Cologne have developed a new method for detecting bacteria and infections. They use fluorescent nanosensors to track down pathogens faster and …
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Research with global impact -
Pressemitteilung, 19.11.2020
The University of Göttingen features in this year's list of "Highly Cited Researchers" once again, with the inclusion of five of its scientists. Chemist Professor Lutz Ackermann, agroecologist…
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Surprises in ‘active’ aging -
Pressemitteilung, 18.11.2020
Aging is a process that affects not only living beings. Many materials, like plastics and glasses, also age and there are computer models to describe this. Biological materials, such as living…
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University of Göttingen successful in the Lower Saxony Science Award 2020 -
Pressemitteilung, 17.11.2020
The University of Göttingen is delighted to announce that it has once again been successful in the Lower Saxony Science Prize 2020. In the category “Wissenschaftler” (scientists), the jury hon…
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COVID-19 highlights risks of wildlife trade -
Pressemitteilung, 17.11.2020
Many diseases, such as COVID-19, have made the jump from animals to people with serious consequences for the human host. An international research team, including Göttingen University, says th…
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University of Göttingen receives another Alexander von Humboldt professorship -
Pressemitteilung, 17.11.2020
The University of Göttingen was once again successful in the competition for the most highly endowed German research award: Physicist Dr. Jan Huisken, nominated by the University of Göttingen,…
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Northern Germany’s fastest computer -
Pressemitteilung, 17.11.2020
Top ranking for Göttingen supercomputer: in the latest listing of the Top500 world's fastest computers, the "Emmy" system installed in Göttingen is 47th in the world. In Germany, Emmy ranks fi…
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In-depth research in cell analysis with Artificial Intelligence -
Pressemitteilung, 16.11.2020
Sartorius will sponsor a new laboratory for cell analysis using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and endow a junior professorship for Computational Cell Analytics at the University of Göttingen. T…
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How nitrogen is transferred by a catalyst -
Pressemitteilung, 12.11.2020
Catalysts with a metal-nitrogen bond can transfer nitrogen to organic molecules. In this process short-lived molecular species are formed, whose properties critically determine the course of t…
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Learning computational tricks from neurons -
Pressemitteilung, 11.11.2020
The University of Göttingen will lead the new European project "Adaptive Optical Dendrites (ADOPD)" for research into alternative, ultra-fast computer components based on neuronal signalling s…
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