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A new Emmy Noether research group at the Centre for Astronomy of Heidelberg University (ZAH) has started working on the physics of star formation in galaxies across cosmic time spans.

Research news Physicists from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have succeeded in detecting a time-resolved supernova signal in the Earth's microfossil record.

Campus news Happy 2nd birthday to our science and technology magazine "Technologist"! It provides cutting-edge research from the Universities of Eurotech Universities Alliance and beyond.

The Volkswagen Foundation has awarded funding in the amount of 460,000 euros to two international research projects by Heidelberg University researchers.

Space is the most hostile environment that we know of. The lack of pressure would bring our bodily fluids to the boil.

How does the ice on the polar caps change? And which are the geological characteristics of the Earth's crust beneath? What is the structure of the boundary between the Earth's crust and mantle? Geoph

There has never been an Egyptian astronaut. But that will not prevent Akram Abdellatif from realizing his dream of going into space.

"We are all astronauts" is the motto of an interdisciplinary and international conference being hosted by the Institute for European Art History of Heidelberg University from 22 to 25 October 2015.

Heidelberg University's Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context" will host an international conference focused on how scales are selected in pursuing research and the investigative methods used.

Planetologists at Freie Universität Berlin Can Expect Funds through the End of 2018 The German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy announced that it is extending its funding for the international space mission Cassini-Huygens to explore the Saturn system for another three years.