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Promoting biodiversity-friendly landscapes - beyond organic farming -
Pressemitteilung, 04.08.2021
Is organic farming the only alternative to conventional agriculture to promote biodiversity in agricultural landscapes? An international research team led by the University of Göttingen questi…
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Evolution of walking leaves -
Pressemitteilung, 02.08.2021
An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has studied the evolution of the walking leaves. Walking leaves belong to the stick and leaf insects that, unlike their approx…
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Solar-powered microbes to feed the world? -
Pressemitteilung, 30.07.2021
Microbes have played a key role in our food and drinks – from cheese to beer – for millennia but their impact on our nutrition may soon become even more important. An international research te…
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Göttingen scientist becomes president of the IAAE -
Pressemitteilung, 28.07.2021
Agricultural economist Professor Matin Qaim from the University of Göttingen will become president of the International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE), the scientific profession…
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Eco-friendly plastic from cellulose and water -
Pressemitteilung, 22.07.2021
Plastics offer many benefits to society and are widely used in our daily life: they are lightweight, cheap and adaptable. However, the production, processing and disposal of plastics are simpl…
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Inadequate protection for women and girls seeking refuge in Germany -
Pressemitteilung, 15.07.2021
Germany is not meeting its legal obligations to protect refugee women and girls from discrimination. This is the conclusion of a "shadow report” with input from Göttingen University. Based on …
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Trust me, I’m a chatbot -
Pressemitteilung, 14.07.2021
More and more companies are using chatbots in customer services. Due to advances in artificial intelligence and natural language processing, chatbots are often indistinguishable from humans wh…
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A database for research in ancient myths -
Pressemitteilung, 12.07.2021
Customised software for research: Göttingen State and University Library has created a special database for the DFG research group "STRATA". The research group at the Faculty of Humanities dea…
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Genome editing for food: how do people react? -
Pressemitteilung, 09.07.2021
A research team from the University of Göttingen and the University of British Columbia (Canada) has investigated how people in five different countries react to various usages of genome editi…
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Using genomics to save the bees -
Pressemitteilung, 07.07.2021
The molecular biologist, Professor Bertram Brenig at Göttingen University, has won the 2021 Agricultural Greater Good Grant. This award recognizes research proposals that will increase the sus…
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Exceptional funding for exceptional projects -
Pressemitteilung, 06.07.2021
The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) have funded Göttingen University's activities in the European Network ENLIGHT with a furth…
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Neanderthal artists? Our ancestors decorated bones over 50,000 years ago -
Pressemitteilung, 05.07.2021
Since the discovery of the first fossil remains, the image of the Neanderthal has been one of a primitive hominin. People have known for a long time that Neanderthals were able to effectively …
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Funding awarded for Human Cognition and Behavior building -
Pressemitteilung, 02.07.2021
The Gemeinsame Wissenschaftskonferenz (Joint Science Conference, GWK) of the German Government and the Länder has awarded funding for the Human Cognition and Behavior (HuCaB) research building…
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Multitalented filaments in living cells -
Pressemitteilung, 30.06.2021
The cells that make up our bodies are exposed to a variety of stresses: heart and lungs have to withstand lifelong expansion and contraction; our skin has to be resistant to tearing whilst ret…
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Brand new infrastructure for high-performance computing -
Pressemitteilung, 30.06.2021
Göttingen University handed over its largest new building project to date to its future users: after a symbolic handover of the keys, the Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung m…
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