To what extent does the process of creating a constitution influence its content and a population's adherence and acceptance? Now an international research team from Universität Hamburg and Warsaw are attempting to answer these questions. The German Research Foundation and the National Science Center of Poland are funding the 3-year project with €480,000.

Neutron stars may be much heavier than predicted by theory. This is possibly due to hyperons, i.e. poorly understood elementary particles.

Inspiring children around the globe to learn about soil diversity - that is the aim of an initiative launched by Malte Jochum, an ecologist at the University of Würzburg.

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 .

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).

Researchers from the Faculty of Science at the University of Potsdam submitted two successful proposals for Collaborative Research Centers to 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.