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Regional differences in bird diversity in agroforestry systems -
Pressemitteilung, 17.05.2024
The diversity and ecological functionality of bird communities in tropical agroforestry systems are shaped by the surrounding landscape. An international research team led by Göttingen Univers…
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Tropical forest resilience to seasonal drought linked to nutrient availability -
Pressemitteilung, 17.05.2024
Tropical forests are highly productive ecosystems accounting for nearly half of the global forest carbon sink. If tropical forests can no longer remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, the …
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Evolutionary genomics: consequences of biodiverse reproductive systems -
Pressemitteilung, 10.05.2024
A new Research Training Group (RTG) in Biology at the University of Göttingen has been funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The RTG, entitled "Evolutionary Genomics: Consequences o…
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Top marks in the students' opinion -
Pressemitteilung, 03.05.2024
In the current university ranking of the Center for Higher Education Development (CHE), the University of Göttingen achieved almost consistently good to very good ratings from students in the …
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Genomes of “star algae” shed light on origin of plants -
Pressemitteilung, 02.05.2024
Land plants cover the surface of our planet and often tower over us. Developing their morphological complexity is underpinned by intricate networks of genes. Among those algae most closely rel…
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Top scores for academic subjects at Göttingen University -
Pressemitteilung, 17.04.2024
Good results for the University of Göttingen: in the most recent subject ranking "QS World University Rankings by Subject", Göttingen’s Agriculture and Forestry is ranked first in Germany and …
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Quantum electronics: Charge travels like light in bilayer graphene -
Pressemitteilung, 12.04.2024
An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has demonstrated experimentally that electrons in naturally occurring double-layer graphene move like particles without any ma…
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Prestigious awards for the humanities at Göttingen University -
Pressemitteilung, 11.04.2024
Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Irene Schneider and linguist Professor Hedde Zeijlstra from the University of Göttingen have each been awarded an Advanced Grant from the European Rese…
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Finds at Schöningen show wood was crucial raw material 300,000 years ago -
Pressemitteilung, 03.04.2024
Extensive excavations in the Schöningen open-cast coal mine have been yielding many wooden objects from a layer dating from the end of a warm interglacial period 300,000 years ago. The items s…
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Human remains from Palau return home -
Pressemitteilung, 26.03.2024
The University of Göttingen and the State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony have handed over ancestral human remains to a delegation from the Republic of Palau. The human remains from the col…
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Exhibition “Me – You – Us: Social Relationships in Humans and other Primates” -
Pressemitteilung, 20.03.2024
Humans are social beings. We have diverse social relationships, learn from others and have to define our role within groups. In this respect, we are not so different from our closest relatives…
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Spectroscopy and theory shed light on excitons in semiconductors -
Pressemitteilung, 19.03.2024
Many electronic devices - from solar panels to TV screens - simply wouldn’t work without semiconductors. Organic semiconductors are a new category of semiconductors. The way they work work is …
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Fairy circles: plant water stress causes Namibia's gaps in grass -
Pressemitteilung, 19.03.2024
Namibia's legendary fairy circles are mysterious, circular, bald patches in the dry grasslands on the edge of the Namib Desert. Their formation has been researched for decades and has recently…
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Human remains from Palau return home -
Pressemitteilung, 11.03.2024
In a formal ceremony on Monday 25 March, the University of Göttingen will hand over the ancestral human remains to Palau. Human remains from Palau that are currently still in the State Ethnogr…
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First heat map for individual red blood cells -
Pressemitteilung, 02.03.2024
Entropy is often associated with disorder, but in biology it is related to energy efficiency and is closely linked to metabolism, the set of chemical reactions that sustain life. An internatio…
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