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A joint archaeological mission by the University of and the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities (MoTA) has documented the world's most extensive find of inscribed pottery sherds at the Upper Egypt site of Athribis.

Very few know of them, fewer still have seen them in their natural environment, not least because today only one species of the spiny dormouse survives, in southern India.

An international project investigating the form, content and consequences of online conspiracy theories has found that in German-speaking countries, such theories often originate locally and have come

Five researchers at the University of and University Hospital of are to receive Consolidator Grants from the European Research Council (ERC).

An analysis of stone tools found in Italy and Lebanon indicates that around 42,000 years ago, modern humans in Europe and the Near East took different approaches to toolmaking.

Near the Syrian city of Afrin, an international research team, including researchers from the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen, has discovered a previously unknown fossil sea turtle.

An international research team led by Christoph Randler , Professor of Biology Education at the University of , has found that during the Covid-19 pandemic, people from collectivist societies such as

A study by an international team of researchers from the University of Tübingen and the HEC business school in Paris has shown that the payment of bonuses to executive board members in large European

Are the cliffs of Athribis hiding a former sanctuary' In the small Egyptian village near Sohag, around 200 kilometers north of Luxor, researchers from the University of Tübingen, supported by the Egyp

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

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

Stereotypes about unpopular swots are persistent - not least because of their often-clichéd depiction in the media.

Women at the top executive level of large European corporations earn an average of 1.2 million euros less per year than their male colleagues.

Experts from Egypt and Germany have finished restoring the ceiling of the Temple of Esna.

The new Center for Bionic Intelligence Tübingen Stuttgart (BITS) aims to optimize the inter-action between humans and technical systems in a fundamentally new way. Scientists from the University of Stuttgart, the University of Tübingen, the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics are conducting research on intelligent bionic systems that will aid understanding and treatment of certain diseases of the central nervous system.

The development of the earliest cities in Mesopotamia and the Middle East led to a substantial increase in violence between inhabitants.

People with type 2 diabetes have an increased risk of kidney disease, heart attack or stroke and are exposed to higher mortality.

Whenever people learn together with others, they draw comparisons. Usually, a contrast effect occurs that immediately affects one's perception of one-s own academic abilities. If others perform better, one assesses one's own abilities as worse. If others perform less well, one perceives oneself as more talented and capable.

A perfectly preserved turtle fossil from Lower Bavaria yields important clues about both the species and the habitat that existed in southern Germany 150 million years ago.

At its meeting yesterday, the Senate of the Leibniz Association voted in favor of establishing a new ScienceCampus in.

The University of is to set up a research center to investigate right-wing extremism. The project is sponsored by the state of Baden-Württemberg.

There is a shortage of teachers not only in Germany, but in many countries around the world. For this reason, people without formal teaching degrees are often brought in from other fields to teach in schools.

For paleontologists, Hammerschmiede in the Allgäu region, the site where the great ape Danuvius was discovered, is a treasure trove unlike any other: more than 140 fossil vertebrate species have been found here.

The University of Tübingen is boosting research and development into science communication by establishing a specialist research center.

Small differences in DNA sequence contribute to heritable variations within a species, as do chemical modifications of DNA called epigenetic changes. In order to better understand the significance of such epigenetic changes for the evolution of plants, an international research team led by Professor Oliver Bossdorf from the Institute of Evolution and Ecology at the University of Tübingen investigated a large number of populations of Thlaspi arvense or field pennycress in a Europe-wide study.

The health of nerve cells is closely linked to the auxiliary cells that surround them, the so-called glial cells.