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Surprisingly vibrant colour of 12-million-year-old snail shells -
Pressemitteilung, 06.02.2024
Snail shells are often colourful and strikingly patterned due to pigments that are produced in special cells of the snail and stored in the shell. Fossil shells, on the other hand, are usually…
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Early departure from the Excellence Strategy competition -
Pressemitteilung, 02.02.2024
It is an early departure from the Excellence Strategy for Göttingen University and its Göttingen Campus partners: the expert panel of the German Research Foundation and the Wissenschaftsrat di…
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New pieces in the puzzle of first life on Earth -
Pressemitteilung, 24.01.2024
Microorganisms were the first forms of life on our planet. However, it is still not clear when and where life originated on Earth and when a diversity of species developed in these communitie…
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How the coronavirus defends itself against our immune system -
Pressemitteilung, 23.01.2024
Covid-19 was the most devastating pandemic of the 21st century. Vaccines and medications have been able to mitigate the course of the disease and contain the pandemic. However, the danger of f…
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Complex green organisms emerged a billion years ago -
Pressemitteilung, 22.01.2024
Of all the organisms that photosynthesize, land plants have the most complex bodies. How did this morphology emerge? A team of scientists led by the University of Göttingen has taken a deep di…
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Shock to stop: How to communicate the dangers of sugar? -
Pressemitteilung, 04.01.2024
Society seems addicted to sugar, but individuals who consume large quantities increase their risk of health problems. Can warning labels on sweets curb consumption? Researchers at Göttingen Un…
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Big impacts from small changes in cell -
Pressemitteilung, 21.12.2023
Tiny things matter – for instance, one amino acid can completely alter the architecture of the cell. Researchers investigated the structure and mechanics of the main component of the cytoskele…
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How the land flora succeeded -
Pressemitteilung, 20.12.2023
The DFG has confirmed the second funding period for the Priority Programme "MAdLand – Molecular Adaptation to Land: plant evolution to change". Before the dawn of plants on land, the surface o…
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Is age linked to the picture of the perfect partner? -
Pressemitteilung, 11.12.2023
How do women picture the partner of their dreams? And how does this vary between women based on their age? A team of researchers led by the University of Göttingen investigated the complex rel…
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Dreissenid mussels: the resilience and success of an invasive species -
Pressemitteilung, 08.12.2023
Zebra and quagga mussels, which belong to the Dreissenid family, are freshwater invasive species widespread throughout western Europe and North America. They present a significant danger to na…
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Urbanization increases seasonal differences in plant-pollinator networks -
Pressemitteilung, 06.12.2023
Increasing urbanization worldwide is a growing threat to biodiversity. At the same time, flowering plants are often more diverse in cities than in the countryside. This is due to flowering pla…
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Influential and highly cited -
Pressemitteilung, 04.12.2023
Lutz Ackermann, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Göttingen, has again been recognised as one of the most influential and most cited scientists in the world. A ranking by Stanford Un…
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Göttingen University’s Humboldt Research Award winner -
Pressemitteilung, 30.11.2023
The physicist Professor Martin Schmaltz from Boston University has received a Humboldt Research Award. Schmaltz has been a visiting researcher at the Institute for Theoretical Physics since Au…
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Limitations of asteroid crater lakes as climate archives -
Pressemitteilung, 28.11.2023
In southern Germany just north of the Danube, there lies a large circular depression between the hilly surroundings: the Nördlinger Ries. Almost 15 million years ago, an asteroid struck this s…
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Success with Collaborative Research Centres -
Pressemitteilung, 24.11.2023
The Göttingen Campus has received positive results about two Collaborative Research Centres (CRCs): the German Research Foundation (DFG) have agreed funding for a new CRC at the University of …
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