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Research in Germany

Germany is a top destination for PhD students, postdocs, and senior scientists. The website "Research in Germany" helps you to find your way to Germany, to seek for PhD positions, research jobs or funding opportunities. It describes the German research landscape and helps you plan your career and life in Germany. Welcome to Germany - the Land of Ideas!

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Why Germany

There are many good reasons for doing research in  Germany. It is one of the most innovative, stable and well endowed  research nations  and its universities and research institutions are among the best in the world. Values like freedom and diversity as well as social and ecological responsibility are considered important to ensure knowledge gain and societal progress.

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Current developments & news

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Here you will find a selection of the latest R&D news from German universities, non-university research institutes and industrial research facilities.

New insights into molecular mechanisms of cholera infection
In an interdisciplinary approach, a team from the University of Münster, ETH Zürich and Leibniz Universität Hannover has investigated a key component of the so-called GM1 cholera toxin complex for the first time using a fluorinated GM1 analogue. The findings on the molecular mechanisms of the strong interaction may help to enable the development of inhibitors that prevent life-threatening cholera infections.
Jul 15, 2024, 5:20:55 PM

Loss of oxygen in bodies of water identified as new tipping point
15.07.2023/Kiel/New York. Oxygen concentrations in our planet's waters is decreasing rapidly and dramatically – from ponds to the ocean. The progressive loss of oxygen threatens not only ecosystems, but also the livelihoods of large sectors of society and the entire planet, according to the authors of an international study involving GEOMAR published today in the scientific journal Nature Ecology and Evolution. They call for the loss of oxygen in water bodies to be recognised as another Planetary Boundary in order to focus global monitoring, research and political measures.
Jul 15, 2024, 3:00:34 PM

Electric trucks: How many fast-charging locations are needed in Europe?
A new joint study by Fraunhofer ISI and Amazon provides critical insights as to the optimal number and location of public fast-charging stations required to enable the widespread electrification of long-haul trucking in Europe. Using traffic flow estimates for 2030, the study built on Amazon’s open-source CHALET tool to analyse 20,000 potential public truck charging locations along the major European highways and a large data set of 1.6 million truck trip combinations. The results suggest that just 1,000 charging stations equipped with Megawatt Charging System (MCS) outlets could enable about 91% of expected long-haul trucking traffic.
Jul 15, 2024, 12:12:53 PM

How Plant Cold Specialists Can Adapt to the Environment
Evolutionary biologists from the universities of Heidelberg, Nottingham, and Prague studied spoonworts to determine what influence genome duplication has on the adaptive potential of plants. The results show that polyploids – species with more than two sets of chromosomes – can have an accumulation of structural mutations with signals for a possible local adaptation, enabling them to occupy ecological niches time and time again.
Jul 12, 2024, 6:49:50 PM

AI in Lie Detection: Social Harmony at Risk?
Artificial intelligence can detect lies much better than humans. This also has an impact on social interaction, as a recently published study from researchers from Würzburg, Duisburg, Berlin, and Toulouse shows.
Jul 12, 2024, 4:20:00 PM

Neural networks made of light
Scientists propose a new way of implementing a neural network with an optical system which could make machine learning more sustainable in the future. The researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light have published their new method in Nature Physics, demonstrating a method much simpler than previous approaches.
Jul 12, 2024, 3:29:35 PM

New insights into molecular mechanisms of cholera infection
In an interdisciplinary approach, a team from the University of Münster, ETH Zürich and Leibniz Universität Hannover has investigated a key component of the so-called GM1 cholera toxin complex for the first time using a fluorinated GM1 analogue. The findings on the molecular mechanisms of the strong interaction may help to enable the development of inhibitors that prevent life-threatening cholera infections.
Jul 15, 2024, 5:20:55 PM

Loss of oxygen in bodies of water identified as new tipping point
15.07.2023/Kiel/New York. Oxygen concentrations in our planet's waters is decreasing rapidly and dramatically – from ponds to the ocean. The progressive loss of oxygen threatens not only ecosystems, but also the livelihoods of large sectors of society and the entire planet, according to the authors of an international study involving GEOMAR published today in the scientific journal Nature Ecology and Evolution. They call for the loss of oxygen in water bodies to be recognised as another Planetary Boundary in order to focus global monitoring, research and political measures.
Jul 15, 2024, 3:00:34 PM

Electric trucks: How many fast-charging locations are needed in Europe?
A new joint study by Fraunhofer ISI and Amazon provides critical insights as to the optimal number and location of public fast-charging stations required to enable the widespread electrification of long-haul trucking in Europe. Using traffic flow estimates for 2030, the study built on Amazon’s open-source CHALET tool to analyse 20,000 potential public truck charging locations along the major European highways and a large data set of 1.6 million truck trip combinations. The results suggest that just 1,000 charging stations equipped with Megawatt Charging System (MCS) outlets could enable about 91% of expected long-haul trucking traffic.
Jul 15, 2024, 12:12:53 PM

How Plant Cold Specialists Can Adapt to the Environment
Evolutionary biologists from the universities of Heidelberg, Nottingham, and Prague studied spoonworts to determine what influence genome duplication has on the adaptive potential of plants. The results show that polyploids – species with more than two sets of chromosomes – can have an accumulation of structural mutations with signals for a possible local adaptation, enabling them to occupy ecological niches time and time again.
Jul 12, 2024, 6:49:50 PM

AI in Lie Detection: Social Harmony at Risk?
Artificial intelligence can detect lies much better than humans. This also has an impact on social interaction, as a recently published study from researchers from Würzburg, Duisburg, Berlin, and Toulouse shows.
Jul 12, 2024, 4:20:00 PM

Neural networks made of light
Scientists propose a new way of implementing a neural network with an optical system which could make machine learning more sustainable in the future. The researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light have published their new method in Nature Physics, demonstrating a method much simpler than previous approaches.
Jul 12, 2024, 3:29:35 PM
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