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Skill and technique in Bronze Age spear combat -
Pressemitteilung, 08.10.2024
How can we tell whether and how a prehistoric weapon was used? How can we better understand the dexterity and combat skills involved in Bronze Age spear fighting? A research team including Göt…
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Senate passes motion to vote out the President -
Pressemitteilung, 02.10.2024
On 2 October 2024, the motion to vote out the President, Professor Metin Tolan, was submitted at a special meeting of the Senate of the University of Göttingen. The senators present voted in f…
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Mystery of Uruguay’s amethyst geodes -
Pressemitteilung, 01.10.2024
Amethyst is a violet variety of quartz which has been used as a gemstone for many centuries and is a key economic resource in northern Uruguay. Amethyst geodes have been found in cooled lava f…
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Tollense valley battlefield: arrowheads indicate violent, transregional conflicts in the Bronze Age -
Pressemitteilung, 23.09.2024
In the Tollense valley in Northern Germany, researchers have been investigating the remains of Europe's oldest battlefield since 2008. The remains found point to a violent conflict involving h…
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Megadiverse flowering plant family on isolated islands -
Pressemitteilung, 20.09.2024
Asteraceae, a family of flowering plants are the most diverse group of flowering plants in the world. This plant family comprises around 34,000 species. A research team found that an unexpecte…
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Greenwashing in food labelling -
Pressemitteilung, 12.09.2024
A research team led by Göttingen University found that the label ‘climate neutral’ makes food appear significantly more climate-friendly than it actually is. Even when information about how th…
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Honey bees fly to organic farming -
Pressemitteilung, 21.08.2024
Honey bees are valued both for their honey and their ability to pollinate crops. However, populations are suffering from the loss of areas of wild flowers in intensive farming, pesticide appli…
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Good results for Göttingen University -
Pressemitteilung, 15.08.2024
The University of Göttingen has achieved a good position in the Shanghai Ranking again. In the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) 2024, the University falls in the category of sixth…
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Glimpse into the nanoworld: microscope reveals tiniest cell processes -
Pressemitteilung, 02.08.2024
What does the inside of a cell really look like? In the past, standard microscopes were limited in how well they could answer this question. Now, researchers from the Universities of Göttingen…
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New perspectives for using corals in climate research -
Pressemitteilung, 01.08.2024
Measuring temperatures from Earth’s past is important for understanding the development of its climate. Ancient ocean temperatures are most commonly reconstructed by analysing the ratio of dif…
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"Laser view" into the avocado: new method reveals cell interior -
Pressemitteilung, 31.07.2024
Checking whether an avocado is hard or soft by looking at it? This would require recognizing how the plant cells behave behind the skin. The same applies to all other cells on our planet: Desp…
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Natural born consumers -
Pressemitteilung, 30.07.2024
What if the ‘Market Economy’ always existed? Archaeologists from the Universities of Göttingen in Germany and Salento in Italy tried to answer this question by researching how much Bronze Age …
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Cheese of the future: Consumers open to animal-free alternatives -
Pressemitteilung, 22.07.2024
Production of dairy products without the use of cows: In so-called precision fermentation, egg and milk proteins are produced with the help of bacteria, yeasts or other fungi. This results in …
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Deeper down the rabbit hole -
Pressemitteilung, 18.07.2024
As technology proliferates, misinformation and conspiracy theories seem to flourish. Conspiracy beliefs specifically about technology include popular commercial technologies, such as Amazon Ec…
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Enormous diversity from evolutionary explosion of flowering plants -
Pressemitteilung, 28.06.2024
An international study involving researchers from the University of Göttingen investigated the evolution of flowering plants using advanced DNA sequencing technology. The researchers discovere…
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