Earthquakes unleash tremendous forces capable of causing massive destruction. For a long time, seismologists have endeavoured to predict earthquakes, localize them precisely, and explore what exactly is happening within the Earth.

Press release: Fertilizing potatoes sustainably - the variety makes the difference Thesis by Göttingen University student on nitrogen fertilization receives award The Förderungsgemeinschaft der Kartoffelwirtschaft e. V.

Höhere Strukturen, Modulräume und Integrabilität-this is the title of a new collaborative research center at Universität Hamburg.

The waste heat from cooling generates a lot of heat in summer - when nobody needs it. It could be stored underground until winter and then used for heating .

Document Actions The project "XR Future Forest Lab" will develop virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality applications for forest and environmental sciences starting 2024.

Top-level research at Leipzig University gets a boost thanks to another double success. Two collaborative research centres (CRCs), including a Transregio programme, that focus on climate and membrane receptors will be extended for another four years starting in January 2024.

DFG makes finance available for three projects on quality assurance of research software The continuing development and long-term quality assurance of research software is the priority of three projects at Heidelberg University that were successful in a call by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

News from Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 1423, "Structural Dynamics of GPCR Activation and Signal Transduction", led by biochemists Professor Annette Beck-Sickinger and Professor Torsten Schöneberg from Leipzig University, has been extended for a second funding period. This was announced today (24 November) by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

Researchers investigate quantum systems.

Physicist Elena Hassinger has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant for her research on superconductors.

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.

How did verbs such as "to go," which were originally reserved for describing specific actions, come to take on the more abstract grammatical role of signifying the future (for example, "voy a cantar"

Around 20 per cent of all Germans live alone - and the number is increasing. This trend can also be observed in most other Western countries.

The Max Planck Institutes in Bremen, Heidelberg, Leipzig and Martinsried are delighted to receive the prestigious Consolidator Grants, each worth around two million euros.

European Research Council supports work at the Institute of Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology For the development of new technological foundations that allow for the precise decoding of interactio

Researchers at RWTH Aachen University and LMU Munich have shown that certain plant proteins resemble human signaling proteins of the immune system and can bind to their receptors. The human immune system is based on cells that communicate with each other using signaling molecules known as cytokines and chemokines.

How can reducing greenhouse gas emissions, more efficient energy use and animal welfare be balanced even more successfully in livestock farming in the future?

Study: Soft drink taxation is relevant way of preventing diseases such as diabetes A simulation study conducted by a team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) demonstrates that a soft drink tax in Germany would have significant positive effects.

The report follows on the heels of the University's sustainability report (2015-2018). The climate protection report is based only on greenhouse gas emissions, not on the entire spectrum of sustainability.