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The project team intends to gain a better understanding of loneliness in Europe and develop recommendations for effective measures against loneliness.

Climate researcher Prof. Lisa Schipper explains in the Nature Climate Change commentary why science also needs emotions "It's really difficult and depressing to keep reading and researching ab

Never before have people recorded more information about their lives than today. Researchers from Würzburg and Tübingen are investigating the positive and negative consequences this could have.

The "international.founders Network" supports international researchers interested in setting up their own company There is a huge potential, but it's been nowhere near exploited to the full.

Physics students doing their masters course fabricate microscopically tiny specimens in a practical training session in a cleanroom.

Physicist Oliver Kamps talks about artificial intelligence and sustainability / "Campus Earth" on November 8 Christina Hoppenbrock took this occasion to ask physicist Dr. Oliver Kamps how arti

Platform offers insights into current research on the First World War, including over 1,600 articles and more than 3,700 illustrations Freie Universität Berlin has relaunched the international open-access encyclopedia "1914-1918-online: International Encyclopedia of the First World War.

Cell biologist Maria Florencia Sánchez is a passionate scientist who now works in Münster Since May of this year, the second floor of the Multiscale Imaging Centre (MIC) on Röntgenstraße has been home to the office of Dr Maria Florencia Sánchez, who studies how cells communicate.

More than half of the natural habitat types in Germany are in an ecologically unfavorable state, and more valuable habitat areas are disappearing every day.

In a recent study, researchers from the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (Leibniz IPHT) and the Friedrich Schiller University Jena have shown how they can non-invasively and non-destructively

Climate change is forcing people to adapt to changed environmental conditions. How they do so is crucial.

Space-saving, energy-efficient, resource-saving, mobile and stackable - this is how researchers at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU) envision food production in the city of the future.

On 1 October, the TU Ilmenau is launching a junior research group that will be researching computationally efficient algorithms that are not installed as software on a conventional computer, as was previously the case, but are implemented as physical hardware.

Researchers from Bonn and Tübingen clarify the neuronal basis of the mathematical concept of "zero" Despite its importance for mathematics, the neuronal basis of the number zero in the human brain was previously unknown. Researchers from the University Hospital Bonn (UKB), the University of Bonn and the University of Tübingen have now discovered that individual nerve cells in the medial temporal lobe recognize zero as a numerical value and not as a separate category "nothing".