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Printers’ widows in early modern Germany -
Pressemitteilung, 05.09.2023
The historian Dr Saskia Limbach at the University of Göttingen has received a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). For a period of five years, the ERC will fund her project…
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Fossil spines reveal deep sea’s past -
Pressemitteilung, 01.09.2023
A research team led by the University of Göttingen has now provided the first fossil evidence for a stable colonisation of the deep sea floor by higher invertebrates for at least 104 million y…
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Algae provide clues about 600 million years of plant evolution -
Pressemitteilung, 30.08.2023
The Earth's surface is covered by plants, exhibiting a wide range of diversity, from mosses to trees. This astounding biodiversity came into existence due to an evolutionary event that happene…
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Curious and cryptic: new leaf insects discovered -
Pressemitteilung, 28.08.2023
An international research team including the University of Göttingen has described seven previously unknown species of leaf insects, also known as walking leaves. The insects belong to the sti…
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University of Göttingen announces Germany and Lower Saxony Scholarships -
Pressemitteilung, 17.08.2023
The University of Göttingen is inviting applications for this year's round of the "Deutschlandstipendium" and the "Niedersachsenstipendium". From 1 to 30 September 2023, students at Göttingen …
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Looking deep into the Network -
Pressemitteilung, 27.07.2023
Artificial neural networks are everywhere in research and technology, as well as in everyday technologies such as speech recognition. Despite this, it is still unclear to researchers what is e…
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Patterns of biodiversity unveiled -
Pressemitteilung, 24.07.2023
Understanding the origins and preservation of biodiversity is crucial as human impact continues to threaten our planet’s rich variety of life. Often overlooked, narrow-ranged and evolutionary …
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Mixed cropping enhances beneficial bugs and reduces pests -
Pressemitteilung, 20.07.2023
Agricultural land use is a major contributor to the global decline in biodiversity – especially farming single crops on a massive scale. Mixing crops can counteract this: in fields where diffe…
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Rainforest protection also with economic value -
Pressemitteilung, 19.07.2023
Rainforest destruction means not only loss of biodiversity, but also high social costs from greenhouse gas emissions. An international team of researchers has quantified changes in forest loss…
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Multiple uses of tropical mosaic landscapes -
Pressemitteilung, 13.07.2023
Many landscapes in the tropics consist of a mosaic of different types of land use. How people make use of these different ecosystems, with their particular plant communities, was unclear until…
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Remote plant worlds -
Pressemitteilung, 12.07.2023
Oceanic islands provide useful models for ecology, biogeography and evolutionary research. Many ground-breaking findings – including Darwin's theory of evolution – have emerged from the study …
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Renewal for university network Enlight -
Pressemitteilung, 03.07.2023
The European university network Enlight has been renewed: the EU has funded the Enlight Network consisting of the University of Göttingen with nine other research-oriented universities for fou…
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Shape-shifting cells at the flick of a switch -
Pressemitteilung, 27.06.2023
Researchers from the Universities of Göttingen and Münster have described for the first time how living cells can be changed reversibly in the lab by targeting the cell membrane with light. Pr…
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Third term on Executive Committee for scholar of German studies -
Pressemitteilung, 23.06.2023
Professor Hiltraud Casper-Hehne, University of Göttingen, has been elected to the Executive Committee of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for the third time. The DAAD General Assemb…
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Forests of Europe: the science-based data -
Pressemitteilung, 22.06.2023
Researchers at Göttingen University are involved in the project "PathFinder", which addresses the European Commission's requirement for standardised, scientifically robust, regularly updated d…
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