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New methods: faster, safer, greener -
Pressemitteilung, 22.04.2021
Professor of Chemistry, Lutz Ackermann from Göttingen University has received an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). The ERC will fund his project "Electrochemical Bond Fu…
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Global sustainability: call for a combination of organic farming and genetic engineering -
Pressemitteilung, 21.04.2021
The EU’s "Farm-to-Fork" strategy aims to make European agriculture and its food systems more sustainable, and in particular to increase the proportion of organic farming. However, an increase …
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Revealing the routes of the Hanseatic era online -
Pressemitteilung, 14.04.2021
The Hanseatic League was a confederation of merchant guilds and market towns in Northwestern and Central Europe, which came to dominate trade in the region for three hundred years. A digital p…
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Asteroid crater on Earth provides clues about Martian craters -
Pressemitteilung, 07.04.2021
At nearly 15-million-years old, the Nördlinger Ries is an asteroid impact crater filled with lake sediments. Its structure is comparable to the craters currently being explored on Mars. In add…
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Göttingen University Senate elects new Vice-Presidents -
Pressemitteilung, 01.04.2021
The Senate of the University of Göttingen elected Professor Anke Holler and Professor Bernhard Brümmer as Vice-Presidents of the University on 1 April 2021. The University Foundation Committee…
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Artificial intelligence as a co-driver -
Pressemitteilung, 26.03.2021
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming more common in many branches of industry and online retailing. Traditional lines of work, such as transport logistics and driving, are devel…
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University of Göttingen can rely on its inhouse corona testing -
Pressemitteilung, 25.03.2021
The University of Göttingen is still in a phase of limited attendance onsite and events attended in person are only permitted in exceptional cases. In order to ensure their safety, students an…
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The very first structures in the Universe -
Pressemitteilung, 24.03.2021
The very first moments of the Universe can be reconstructed mathematically even though they cannot be observed directly. Physicists from the Universities of Göttingen and Auckland (New Zealand…
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Bilingual babies prefer “baby talk” in their native languages -
Pressemitteilung, 23.03.2021
A unique study of hundreds of babies across four continents shows that all babies respond more to infant-directed speech – baby talk – than they do to the type of speech directed at an adult. …
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Cosmic web offers insights into the history of the Universe -
Pressemitteilung, 18.03.2021
The Universe is criss-crossed by a cosmic web consisting of large filamentary gas structures in which galaxies should form. The existence of this network confirms the most important prediction…
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Standing out from the crowd -
Pressemitteilung, 11.03.2021
Corporate strategies should be as unique as possible, in fact highly specific to each individual company. This enables companies to compete successfully in the long term - even though the capi…
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Visa costs higher for people from poor countries -
Pressemitteilung, 10.03.2021
How much do people have to pay for a travel permit to another country? A research team from Göttingen, Paris, Pisa and Florence has investigated the costs around the world. What they found rev…
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Breaking the warp barrier for faster-than-light travel -
Pressemitteilung, 09.03.2021
If travel to distant stars within an individual’s lifetime is going to be possible, a means of faster-than-light propulsion will have to be found. Even recent research about faster-than-light …
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Glowing hot super-Earth nearby -
Pressemitteilung, 05.03.2021
In the past two and a half decades, astronomers have discovered thousands of exoplanets made of gas, ice and rock. Only a few of them are Earth-like. Studying their atmospheres with the instru…
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Watching the brain learn -
Pressemitteilung, 04.03.2021
Understanding the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying brain “plasticity", is crucial for explaining many illnesses and conditions. Neurocientists from the University and University Me…
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