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Biodiversity needs more than just flower strips
Strips of land planted with flowers between fields are the most popular environmental measure in agriculture. They attract pollinators such as butterflies and wild bees, look beautiful and can be achieved quickly. But this is not enough! Researchers have described how agricultural landscapes need to be designed to accommodate many species and to ensure other social and ecological functions such as providing nature for human recreation and climate protection.
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Funding for training and research in biological complexity
Complex biological systems are more than the sum of their parts – their properties emerge from the dynamic interaction of their components, such as molecules or cells. PhD researchers now have the opportunity to develop their own theoretical perspective on these systems as part of an international Doctoral Network. A European consortium initiated by researchers from Göttingen and Edinburgh has been awarded €4.5M by Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions to coordinate the network.
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Ancient rocks reveal critical metal origin and continent-breaking forces
Rare rocks buried deep beneath central Australia have revealed the origins of one of the world’s most promising new deposits of niobium – a metal vital for producing high-strength steel and clean energy technologies. Researchers found that newly discovered niobium-rich carbonatites were formed more than 800 million years ago, rising from deep within the Earth through fractures of the crust during a tectonic rifting event that ultimately tore apart the supercontinent known as Rodinia.
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Gauss Professorship for US biometeorologist
Professor Dennis Baldocchi from the University of California in Berkeley has been awarded a Gauss Professorship by the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Over the next two months, he will be conducting research at the Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology at the University of Göttingen, where he will be working with Professor Alexander Knohl and his team in the Bioclimatology Group.
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Discovery unlocks potential of “miracle material” for future electronics
Graphene is an extraordinary material – a sheet of interlocking carbon atoms just one atom thick that is stable and extremely conductive. This makes it useful in a range of areas, such as flexible electronic displays, highly precise sensors, powerful batteries, and efficient solar cells. Researchers have directly observed “Floquet effects” in graphene for the first time, which takes graphene’s potential to a new level. The study was published in Nature Physics.
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International awards for researchers at the Göttingen Campus
Two researchers at the Göttingen Campus have been awarded ERC Starting Grants by the European Research Council (ERC). Ecologist Dr Anggi Hapsari from the University of Göttingen receives funding of around two million euros for her project "SaLtedPeat". Neuroscientist Dr Oliver Barnsted from the European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen (ENI-G) receives funding of around 1.5 million euros for his project “LearnMamBo“. Both projects will run for five years.
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