Is the Wadden Sea a source of greenhouse gases, and what role do mudflats, sediments, groundwater and inflows from land play in this? A consortium of six research institutions is investigating these ...

Our cells have their own internal ‘rubbish collection’ system that gathers up everything that is defective, worn out or foreign. Acting as a sort of ‘cellular stomach’, the so-called lysosomes are ...

Around one in three individuals of shorebirds breeding in the tundra return each year, compared to two in three of those that breed in forests, grasslands and arid regions. • Where latitude matters: ...

Their workshop “Turn of the Green Tides. Designing with Algal Blooms for Coastal Resilience and Climate Adaptation”, takes place from September 21 to 25 at the Center for interdisziplinary Research ...

The Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM) begins its 2026–2027 academic year by welcoming nine short-term and three long-term Fellows to Tunis. The new academic year also brings a ...

A consortium, led by BIFOLD/TU Berlin together with LMU Munich and UKE Hamburg, brings together oncologists, pathologists, and machine learning researchers to build AI models that integrate ...

Disinformation poses a particular threat at the political level. How can it be better identified? A team led by Professor Florian Töpfl is investigating this question as part of the EU Horizon Project ...

The German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding a new Emmy Noether Research Group at the Institute of Physics at the University of Rostock, led by Dr. Franziska Fennel. The project aims to investigate ...

Neurons receive thousands of signals via tree-like extensions called dendrites. Until now, these dendrites were thought to be relatively smooth cables that conduct electrical signals to the cell body.

Christoph Herrmann, Professor of Sustainable Manufacturing and Life Cycle Engineering at TU Braunschweig and Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST, was ...

The global transition towards a circular carbon economy requires technologies capable of converting biomass resources into renewable materials, chemicals and energy products, such as functional ...

How can we conserve water while also producing healthy plants for our food supply? A joint research project between Osnabrück University and the DFKI is using AI and a smart robot to achieve this.