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At this year's Hannover Messe, the Technische Universität Ilmenau is presenting an innovative technology for autonomous vehicles that assesses the intentions of pedestrians at the side of the road online so that the vehicle reacts immediately and correctly in the event of danger.

  RWTH's new Profile Area, Built and Lived Environment, was inaugurated at RWTH in the presence of Science Minister Ina Brandes.

News from Together with an international team of German and US scientists, Junior Professor Martin Hänsel suggests and discusses the concept of "Climate Policy Curves" in the international journal Climate Policy.

Plant leaves need a large surface area to capture sunlight for photosynthesis.

With more and more damaged timber and climate-related softened soils, timber harvesting and timber transportation with heavy machinery and vehicles are putting increasing strain on forest roads.

Over the next four years, a new joint project will investigate the links between wildfires and climate change.

Knowledge Transfer and Innovation Published: The Commission of Experts for Research and Innovation (EFI), chaired by Uwe Cantner from the University of Jena, presented its new annual report to Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz on 28 February 2024.

Marine heat waves in the Arctic will become a regular occurrence in the future and can be traced back to the human-induced rise in greenhouse gases.

  Excellence Initiative: RWTH and TU Dresden researchers aim to reshape construction through "CARE" by building in climate-neutral and resource-efficient ways.

The University of Freiburg has been successful in the current round of the Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments.

The Faculty of Arts and the Humanities at JMU is becoming even more interdisciplinary: The new centre for "Modern and Contemporary Studies" provides new opportunities for collaborative research and teaching. The aim of the new centre is to strengthen cross-faculty collaboration in the humanities and social sciences.

A joint study by the University of Tübingen, the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research, the University of Osnabrück and the University of Rwanda has found that 80 percent of the energy required in

Model simulations show how a spatial reconfiguration of land use can increase food production while simultaneously storing more carbon A radical reconfiguration of historically evolved systems of land use would make it possible in principle to double food production, save water, and increase carbon storage at the same time.

University of Bonn researchers studying how national policies affect forests in border regions How do national policies impact deforestation?