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Cost-effective and environmentally friendly chemical synthesis -
Pressemitteilung, 19.11.2018
Dr Alexander Breder from the Institute of Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry at the University of Göttingen has received a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). The ERC will…
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'Bildung' for Sustainable Development -
Pressemitteilung, 19.11.2018
"'Bildung' for Sustainable Development" was the theme of this year's conference in the series "Science for Peace and Sustainability". The University of Göttingen, the Association of German Sci…
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Tropical trees are moving up the mountain to avoid climate change -
Pressemitteilung, 15.11.2018
An international team of scientists, including researchers from the University of Göttingen, has discovered that tropical and subtropical forests in the South American Andes are reacting to gl…
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Newly discovered planet sets Barnard's Star in motion -
Pressemitteilung, 14.11.2018
Scientists have discovered a planet in the orbit of Barnard's Star, which is about six light years from us. They assume that the planet, which has about 3.2 times as much mass as Earth, orbits…
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New Investigations in Germany's Oldest Cemetery -
Pressemitteilung, 02.11.2018
The hill “Weinberg” near Groß Fredenwalde is the site of an archaeological sensation: 8,500 years ago, Mesolithic people created a burial site on the hill. The universities of Göttingen and Ki…
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Physics in Advent! -
Pressemitteilung, 01.11.2018
Twenty-four more experiments until Christmas! This year, the University of Göttingen and its partners are offering entertaining physics experiments for the Advent season. The fun is open to ev…
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From "Bare Essentials" to "Objects Full of Hope and Promise" -
Pressemitteilung, 01.11.2018
What role do objects play when people are forced to flee? What things do they take with them and why? The University of Göttingen, the Museum Friedland and the Berlin exhibition office "Die Ex…
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Illegal hunting exacerbates livestock loss -
Pressemitteilung, 02.10.2018
Direct exploitation of wildlife is a global driver of biodiversity decline. Illegal hunting (‘poaching’) inside and around protected areas can affect wildlife populations negatively which, in …
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University of Göttingen is awarded one Cluster of Excellence -
Pressemitteilung, 27.09.2018
The University of Göttingen and its partners at the Göttingen Campus have been awarded funding for the Cluster of Excellence “Multiscale Bioimaging: from Molecular Machines to Networks of Exci…
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Award for contribution to the Colombian peace process -
Pressemitteilung, 25.09.2018
Law Professor Kai Ambos from the University of Göttingen has been awarded the Order of merit “Carlos Lemos Simmonds” for 2018 by the Colombian Press Association and the German Embassy in Bogot…
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The "dark side" of the cell -
Pressemitteilung, 07.09.2018
Researchers at the University of Goettingen have used a novel microscopy method. In doing so they were able to show both the illuminated and the "dark side" of the cell. The results of the stu…
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Many facets of biodiversity reduce variability of grassland biomass production -
Pressemitteilung, 27.08.2018
A new study shows that, in addition to species richness, plant evolutionary history plays a critical role in regulating year-to-year variation of biomass production in grasslands. In the face …
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Top 100 in the Shanghai Ranking -
Pressemitteilung, 21.08.2018
The University of Göttingen has succeeded in retaining its dominance in the Shanghai Ranking. In the current Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) 2018 (also known as the Shanghai Rank…
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Foods of the future -
Pressemitteilung, 15.08.2018
A steadily growing world population brings with it an increasing demand for protein-rich food. Since meat production cannot be increased indefinitely, scientists have been seeking to establish…
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Growing a dinosaur's dinner -
Pressemitteilung, 20.07.2018
Researchers at the Universities of Leeds and Goettingen have studied the nutrition of plant-eating dinosaurs by cultivating plants under atmospheric conditions similar to those of about 150 mi…
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