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

AI in Cell Research: Moscot Reveals Cell Dynamics in Unprecedented Detail

Thanks to a new technology called Moscot (“Multi-Omics Single-Cell Optimal Transport”), researchers can now observe millions of cells simultaneously as they develop into a new organ—for example, a pancreas. This groundbreaking method was developed by an international research team led by Helmholtz Munich and has been published in the renowned journal Nature.

Jan 22, 2025, 6:00:00 PM

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New insights into bonding nature of antimony – implications for materials research

A new study that provides unprecedented insights into the chemical bonding of antimony could have a profound impact on materials research. The collaboration between scientists from Leipzig University, RWTH Aachen University and the DESY synchrotron in Hamburg combined experimental measurements with theoretical calculations. The findings will help scientists to better understand phase change materials and, in particular, improve their application in data storage and thermoelectrics. The research has now been published in the prestigious journal Advanced Materials.

Jan 22, 2025, 3:22:16 PM

How the design of online slot machines affects gambling problems

Virtual gambling machines played on computers, tablets and smartphones are suspected of fuelling erroneous beliefs among gamblers regarding their influence on game outcomes and chances of winning even more strongly than traditional mechanical gambling machines / publication in ‘Trends in Cognitive Sciences’

Jan 22, 2025, 2:30:03 PM

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Growth through collisions - Publication on planet formation

Planets are formed when dust and rock in a disk around a young star collide and combine to form ever larger bodies. This so-called accretion is not yet fully understood. Astrophysicists at the University of Duisburg-Essen were able to make significant observations of collision speed and electrical charge of the particles through experiments on a suborbital flight. Their results have just been published in Nature Astronomy*.

Jan 22, 2025, 12:44:03 PM

Early humans influenced the availability of meat and scavenging animals

Press release of the University of Tübingen and the Senckenberg Nature Research Society: Research team from the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen investigates relationship dynamics in ecosystems 130,000 to 20,000 years ago

Jan 22, 2025, 12:18:56 PM

Reconstruction of the complete skeleton of a Diatryma

Fossil discovery in the Geiseltal Collection: researchers identify unique bird skull

Around 45 million years ago, a 4.6 feet-tall (1.40 metres) flightless bird called Diatryma roamed the Geiseltal region in southern Saxony-Anhalt. An international team of researchers led the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) and the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum in Frankfurt report on the bird's fully preserved skull in the scientific journal "Palaeontologia Electronica". The fossil was unearthed in the 1950s in a former lignite mining area in the Geiseltal in Germany. It was initially misclassified and thus led a shadowy existence until its rediscovery. The only other place that a similar skull fossil has been found is the USA.

Jan 22, 2025, 11:18:53 AM

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