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„Hot Spots are no solution“ -
Pressemitteilung, 04.10.2019
An international team of scientists has criticised the situation in the Aegean Sea and especially in the Greek refugee camp Moria. The researchers of the EU-funded research project "Respond", …
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Giant exoplanet around tiny star challenges understanding of how planets form -
Pressemitteilung, 27.09.2019
An international team of researchers with participation from the University of Göttingen has discovered the first large gas giant orbiting a small star. The planet was found orbiting the nearb…
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Increased risk of simultaneous droughts in wheat-growing areas -
Pressemitteilung, 26.09.2019
If global greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise unabated, the risk of extreme droughts simultaneously affecting central wheat-growing areas could increase three to fourfold by the end of t…
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Instant messaging in proteins discovered -
Pressemitteilung, 18.09.2019
Proteins are essential for every living cell and responsible for many fundamental processes. In particular, they are required as bio-catalysts in metabolism and for signalling inside the cell …
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University Senate decides about personnel -
Pressemitteilung, 18.09.2019
The Senate of the University of Göttingen unanimously agreed that Professor Reinhard Jahn should be entrusted with the rights and duties of President for a period of approximately one year sta…
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Sustainable support for researchers -
Pressemitteilung, 17.09.2019
The Welcome Centre for the Göttingen Campus and the Südniedersachsen region continues to work hard to strengthen sustainable collaboration with its existing project partners. As a result, the …
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The real value of cats and dogs in Germany -
Pressemitteilung, 13.09.2019
It is estimated that 23 percent of all German households have a cat, 19 percent a dog, 6 percent other small animals and 10 percent birds, fish or reptiles. One indication how much these anima…
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The significance of the humanities in the 21st century -
Pressemitteilung, 11.09.2019
Since April 2019, the University of Göttingen has been coordinating a European research team preparing the European part of the World Humanities Report (WHR) for UNESCO. From this summer, the …
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How cows and cattle can get back to the pastures -
Pressemitteilung, 09.09.2019
Modern livestock farming increases the pressure to use arable land for fodder production. The result: modern dairy farms no longer send their cows out to pasture. The "Green Grass" project, le…
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Why is Brexit so difficult? -
Pressemitteilung, 03.09.2019
"Why is Brexit so difficult?“ – the University of Göttingen invites you to a public lecture followed by a panel discussion on Tuesday 10 September 2019. The British political scientist Profess…
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Graphene layer enables advance in super-resolution microscopy -
Pressemitteilung, 02.09.2019
Researchers at the University of Göttingen have developed a new method that takes advantage of the unusual properties of graphene to electromagnetically interact with fluorescing (light-emitti…
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Cows contribute to plant composition of their pastures -
Pressemitteilung, 30.08.2019
Angus, or Highland Cattle: not all cows are the same when it comes to a preference for different herbaceous, grass and shrub species. Research carried out the Universities of Heidelberg and Gö…
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The beginnings of trade in northwestern Europe during the Bronze Age -
Pressemitteilung, 26.08.2019
People in England were using balance weights and scales to measure the value of materials as early as the late second and early first millennia BC. This is what Professor Lorenz Rahmstorf, sci…
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Tracing the Evolution of Vision -
Pressemitteilung, 22.08.2019
The function of the visual photopigment rhodopsin and its action in the retina to facilitate vision is well understood. However, there remain questions about other biological functions of this…
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Germany and United Kingdom are popular destinations -
Pressemitteilung, 21.08.2019
Those who wish to leave their own country of origin in the European Union (EU) can currently do so without complications: with the right to freedom of movement, the EU offers its citizens uniq…
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