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Paul de Lagarde (1827-1891) – scholar and anti-Semite -
Pressemitteilung, 09.09.2020
Who was Paul de Lagarde? A research team from the Department of Egyptology and Coptic Studies at the University of Göttingen, in collaboration with the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European Je…
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Consequences of the 2018 summer drought -
Pressemitteilung, 08.09.2020
The drought that hit central and northern Europe in summer 2018 had serious effects on crops, forests and grasslands. Researchers from the European Research Infrastructure Integrated Carbon Ob…
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Ecology Award for Agroecologist -
Pressemitteilung, 07.09.2020
The agroecologist, Professor Teja Tscharntke from the University of Göttingen, has been awarded the Marsh Award for Ecology by the British Ecological Society. The prize is awarded for an outst…
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Five years later: the Balkan route of 2015 was an exception -
Pressemitteilung, 04.09.2020
The research report “Border Experiences and Practices of Refugees” by the EU project “Multi-level Governance of Mass Migration in Europe and beyond (RESPOND)” provides a unique documentation o…
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Land use change leads to increased flooding in Indonesia -
Pressemitteilung, 27.08.2020
While high greenhouse gas emissions and biodiversity loss are often associated with rapid land-use change in Indonesia, impacts on local water cycles have been largely overlooked. Researchers …
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Are antivitamins the new antibiotics? -
Pressemitteilung, 24.08.2020
Antibiotics are among the most important discoveries of modern medicine and have saved millions of lives since the discovery of penicillin almost 100 years ago. Many diseases caused by bacteri…
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New insights into lung tissue in Covid-19 disease -
Pressemitteilung, 21.08.2020
Physicists at the University of Göttingen, together with pathologists and lung specialists at the Medical University of Hannover, have developed a three-dimensional imaging technique that enab…
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Göttingen professors share their expert opinions on more sustainable nutrition -
Pressemitteilung, 21.08.2020
Germany’s Scientific Advisory Board for Agricultural Policy, Food and Consumer Health Protection (WBAE), an interdisciplinary body that advises the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture on …
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How will the population accept COVID-19 tracing apps? -
Pressemitteilung, 28.07.2020
Coronavirus tracing applications for the detection of infection chains are currently being developed and made available across the world. Such contact-tracing apps are a central component of n…
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Changes in farming urgent to rescue biodiversity -
Pressemitteilung, 20.07.2020
Humans depend on farming for their very survival but this activity takes up more than one third of the world’s landmass and endangers 62% of all threatened species globally. However, agricultu…
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A chemical tailor-made suit for Alzheimer’s drugs -
Pressemitteilung, 17.07.2020
With over 1.2 million people affected in Germany alone and over 50 million people worldwide, Alzheimer's disease is one of the greatest medical and social challenges of our time. Due to pathol…
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Land reform in Colombia following 2016 Peace Accord -
Pressemitteilung, 15.07.2020
Colombian legal scientist Dr Natalia Ruíz Morato has started her research as an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Agricultural Law at the University of Göttingen.…
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Mystery about cause of genetic disease in horses -
Pressemitteilung, 14.07.2020
Warmblood fragile foal syndrome is a severe, usually fatal, genetic disease that manifests itself after birth in affected horses. Due to the defect, the connective tissue is unstable. A resear…
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University Network ENLIGHT to become “European University” -
Pressemitteilung, 09.07.2020
The university network ENLIGHT is to become a European University. The EU will fund the network of nine research-intensive universities, among them the University of Göttingen, with five milli…
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Rock ‘n’ Control -
Pressemitteilung, 08.07.2020
The goal of “Femtochemistry” is to film and control chemical reactions with short flashes of light. Using consecutive laser pulses, atomic bonds can be excited precisely and broken as desired.…
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