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Magma in motion: when is an eruption triggered?
How long before the actual volcanic eruption are there warning signals deep down inside the Earth? Researchers investigated by analysing volcanic deposits from an eruption that occurred near Naples 40,000 years ago. They found that fresh magma rising from depths caused the volcano to erupt within around 60 years. However, according to the researchers, this “warning time” – meaning the time until rising magma triggers an eruption – depends largely on the magma temperature.
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Artificial neurons organize themselves
Novel artificial neurons learn independently and are more strongly modeled on their biological counterparts. Researchers from the Göttingen Campus Institute for Dynamics of Biological Networks at the University of Göttingen and the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization have programmed these infomorphic neurons and constructed artificial neural networks from them. The special feature is that the individual artificial neurons learn in a self-organized way and draw the necessary information from their immediate environment in the network.
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Global patterns in seed plant distribution over millions of years
Why do some plants thrive in specific regions but not in others? A study led by researchers at the University of Göttingen explores the factors shaping plant distributions and how these patterns have changed over millions of years. Analyzing nearly 270,000 seed plant species worldwide, the research highlights the roles of environmental conditions and dispersal barriers in influencing global plant diversity. The results were published in Nature Ecology & Evolution.
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Exhibition "What the quantum?!"
“What the quantum?!” is the exhibition to celebrate the Quantum Year 2025 in the Forum Wissen, the knowledge museum of the University of Göttingen. The Forum Wissen is dedicating a large special exhibition to mark the topic of quantum mechanics, whose history is closely linked with Göttingen University. The exhibition tells the story of quantum physics from the year 1900 right up to the present day. It will run at the Forum Wissen from 27 March to 14 September 2025.
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Emotive marketing for sustainable consumption?
Does triggering certain emotions increase willingness to pay for sustainably produced food? In social media, emotional messages are often used to influence users' consumer behaviour. An international research team including the University of Göttingen investigated the short- and medium-term effects of such content on consumers' willingness to pay for bars of chocolate. They found that in the short term, provoking certain emotions increases willingness to pay, but the effect weakens after a very short time.
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600 million years of stress: plants retain shared gene hubs
The success of land plants is surprising because it is a challenging habitat. On land, rapid shifts in envi-ronmental conditions lead to stress, and plants have developed an elaborate molecular machinery for sensing and responding. Now, a research team led by the University of Göttingen has compared algae and plants that span 600 million years of independent evolution and pinpointed a shared stress response network using advanced bioinformatic methods.
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