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Emotive marketing for sustainable consumption? -
Pressemitteilung, 10.03.2025
Does triggering certain emotions increase willingness to pay for sustainably produced food? In social media, emotional messages are often used to influence users' consumer behaviour. An intern…
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600 million years of stress: plants retain shared gene hubs -
Pressemitteilung, 06.03.2025
The success of land plants is surprising because it is a challenging habitat. On land, rapid shifts in envi-ronmental conditions lead to stress, and plants have developed an elaborate molecula…
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President takes office -
Pressemitteilung, 03.03.2025
Professor Axel Schölmerich took office as interim President of the University of Göttingen on 1 March 2025. In February, the University Senate unanimously agreed for him to take on the duties …
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Hearing triggered by molecular “spring” -
Pressemitteilung, 03.03.2025
Hearing begins with the stretching of elastic molecular “springs” that open ion channels in the sensory hair cells of the ear. For decades, researchers have known that these gating springs mus…
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Segment Anything for Microscopy -
Pressemitteilung, 20.02.2025
An international research team led by Göttingen University has developed a method by retraining the existing AI-based software Segment Anything on over 17,000 microscopy images with over 2 mil…
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Successful strategies for collaborative species conservation -
Pressemitteilung, 17.02.2025
How can the loss of species and habitats in agricultural landscapes be stopped? Up to now, measures have mostly been implemented by individual farms. Researchers at the University of Göttingen…
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Evidence of cannibalism 18,000 years ago -
Pressemitteilung, 10.02.2025
An international research team including the University of Göttingen has gained new insights into the burial rituals of Late Ice Age societies in Central Europe. Signs of human remains from th…
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Göttingen University Senate elects interim president -
Pressemitteilung, 05.02.2025
At its special meeting today, the Senate of the University of Göttingen unanimously voted in favour of Professor Axel Schölmerich being appointed as interim president at the earliest opportuni…
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Protection for small-scale producers and the environment? -
Pressemitteilung, 03.02.2025
Sustainability certificates such as Fairtrade, Rainforest Alliance and Cocoa Life promise to improve the livelihoods of small-scale cocoa producers while preserving biodiversity on plantations…
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Promoting cacao production without sacrificing biodiversity -
Pressemitteilung, 30.01.2025
The productivity of cacao trees decreases with time, forcing farmers to renew their plantations by either cutting down the old trees or establishing a new crop elsewhere. Frequently, new plant…
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A look into the dark -
Pressemitteilung, 29.01.2025
How can the latest technology, such as solar cells, be improved? An international research team led by the University of Göttingen is helping to find answers to questions like this with a new …
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Oceanic plate between Arabian and Eurasian continental plates is breaking away -
Pressemitteilung, 28.01.2025
A research team led by Göttingen University investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the Zagros Mountains in the Kurdistan region of Iraq on how much the surface of the Earth has be…
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Glimpse of the weather of a world far away -
Pressemitteilung, 21.01.2025
An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has discovered extremely strong winds on the exoplanet “WASP-127b”. The winds along the equator of this planet can reach speed…
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Hornworts provide clues to plant evolution -
Pressemitteilung, 20.01.2025
Land plants are extremely diverse: over 400,000 species reaching every corner of the world. Certain plants - such as the towering trees or the crops in our fields - are the ones that capture o…
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The Moon: a chunk ejected from Earth? -
Pressemitteilung, 15.01.2025
A research team from Göttingen University and the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) has discovered another piece in the puzzle of the formation of the Moon and water on Eart…
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