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A new study from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin shows how referendums and flexible trade rules within the U.S. internal market enable states to adopt ambitious animal welfare laws-offering insights for European policymaking.

HU Research Team Provides Data for Adjusting National Fertiliser Regulation. Human faeces have great potential for being used as a fertiliser in farming.

In a study with preschool children in Kenya, an international team of psychologists shows how reading a story to children still influences their preference for fruit and vegetables after one to two w

Having children makes people happy, especially women - this is a common societal belief. But how do mental health, well-being and feelings of loneliness change in parents compared to women and men without children over the life course?

The HU neuroscientist wants to develop methods for analysing large brains using the elephant brain as an example.

A study coordinated by Humboldt-Universität has analysed so-called overshoot scenarios and warns of their consequences for the climate and the environment.

HU biologist Kerstin Kaufmann leads ERC research project to unravel complex pattern formation processes in biological systems.

First cross-national analysis of international investments in nature conservation shows how funds can be used more efficiently to protect tropical forests.

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.

Unusual arrangement of whiskers and indirect feeding probably contribute to elephants' left and right proboscis behaviour.

Marcel Robischon, Professor of Agroecology at the HU, has been working with his students on the propagation of historical mulberry trees.

Nakib Protik investigates the transport properties of materials, specifically, the strong drag physics; Stefanie Alisch explores sound systems for a new understanding of musicology.