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How fungi influence global plant colonisation -
Pressemitteilung, 25.02.2019
The symbiosis of plants and fungi has a great influence on the worldwide spread of plant species. In some cases, it even acts like a filter. This has been discovered by an international team o…
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Researchers get to the bottom of fairy circles -
Pressemitteilung, 19.02.2019
Fairy circles are round gaps in arid grassland that are distributed very uniformly over the landscape and only occur along the Namib Desert in southern Africa and in parts of Australia. Variou…
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Happy as a pig in muck? -
Pressemitteilung, 15.02.2019
Photos play an important role when it comes to how agricultural products are seen by consumers. A team of scientists from the Universities of Bozen-Bolzano and Göttingen investigated how peopl…
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Is our personality affected by the way we look? (Or the way we think we look?) -
Pressemitteilung, 11.02.2019
To what extent is our personality an adaptation to our appearance or even our physique? A team of scientists at the University of Göttingen has investigated this question. Their results: it de…
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Researchers track down new biocatalysts -
Pressemitteilung, 05.02.2019
Phosphate is a key element in many processes in the body and essential for global food production. Re-searchers at the University of Göttingen have now developed a method to detect new enzymes…
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Where do the best strawberries grow? -
Pressemitteilung, 04.02.2019
Agricultural production benefits enormously from flower-visiting bees and other flower-visiting insects. Because of their supply of flowering plants and opportunities for nesting, hedgerows an…
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Mice transmit acquired adaptability to their offspring -
Pressemitteilung, 23.01.2019
If mice grow up in a stimulating environment, for example in large cages with running wheels and labyrinths with several other mice, their brain remains adaptable for longer, ie more plastic. …
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How much rainforest do birds need? -
Pressemitteilung, 17.01.2019
Researchers of the Department of Conservation Biology at the University of Göttingen have carried out research in Southwest Cameroon to assess which proportion of forest would be necessary in …
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How words get an emotional meaning -
Pressemitteilung, 09.01.2019
Many objects and people in everyday life have an emotional meaning. A pair of wool socks, for example, has an emotional value if it was the last thing the grandmother knitted before her death.…
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Award for Göttingen Agricultural Scientist -
Pressemitteilung, 07.01.2019
The agricultural scientist Professor Matin Qaim from the University of Göttingen was recently elected Fellow of the American Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA). The fellowship…
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The new green alternative for drug production -
Pressemitteilung, 21.12.2018
For the production of drugs, pesticides and smartphone displays, most of the processes are cost-intensive and generate a large amount of waste. Scientists at the University of Göttingen have n…
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Tree of walking sticks -
Pressemitteilung, 19.12.2018
Stick and leaf insects (Phasmatodea) are among the most fascinating insects on earth: they are extremely large and, thanks to their remarkable ability to camouflage themselves perfectly as twi…
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Call for a return to an objective debate -
Pressemitteilung, 12.12.2018
Researchers at the Centre for Global Migration Studies (CeMig) at Göttingen Campus criticise that right-wing populist voices and conspiracy theories now far outweigh any differentiated and obj…
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A tomato for everyone: “Sunviva” for the good of all -
Pressemitteilung, 07.12.2018
Plant breeders at the University of Göttingen and Agrecol have launched a joint initiative to protect seeds as common property. Agrecol developed an "Open Source Seed Licence", which legally p…
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What the helium tail of the exoplanet reveals -
Pressemitteilung, 06.12.2018
An international team of researchers with participation from the Institute of Astrophysics at the Universi-ty of Göttingen has discovered that the gas exoplanet (ie a planet outside our solar …
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