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

Reading the genome and understanding evolution: Symbioses and gene transfer in leaf beetles

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, the Max Planck Institute of Biology in Tübingen, Germany, and a consortium of international scientists explored the evolutionary success of leaf beetles and found out how leaf beetles found the key to digesting plants better with the help of bacteria.

Jan 17, 2025, 6:00:00 PM

Groundwater threatened by droughts and heavy rainfalls

Extreme climate events endanger groundwater quality and stability, when rain water evades natural purification processes in the soil. This was demonstrated in long-term groundwater analyses using new analytical methods, as described in a recent study in Nature Communications. As billions of people rely on sufficient and clean groundwater for drinking, understanding the impacts of climate extremes on future water security is crucial.

Jan 17, 2025, 4:00:00 PM

Retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL), ganglion cell–inner plexiform layer (GCIPL), inner nuclear layer (INL) and amacrine cells (AC) of the retina. The synaptic layer of the AC, the GCIPL, was thinner with a higher genetic risk for schizophrenia.

Insight into schizophrenia disease mechanisms found in the eye

Researchers analyzed the genetic connection of retinal cells and several neuropsychiatric disorders. By combining different datasets, they found that schizophrenia risk genes were associated with specific neurons in the retina. The involved risk genes suggest an impairment of synapse biology, so the ability of neurons to communicate with each other. This impairment might also be present in the brain of schizophrenia patients.

Jan 17, 2025, 3:45:00 PM

Not Only Cereals: Revealing the menu of 5000 years ago

A new study of SFB 1266 provides further insights into the diet of the so-called Funnelbeaker culture.

Jan 17, 2025, 1:48:10 PM

The medium-voltage system technology developed at Fraunhofer ISE for future fast-charging stations enables peak loads of several megawatts with low resource consumption and high flexibility.

Charging Infrastructure of Medium Voltage Station Upped to Megawatt Class

In the future, charging stations along freeways, in parking lots or at logistics centers will have to deliver much more power in a short space of time than they do today. For this reason, new charging stations can no longer simply be connected to the low voltage power grid. In the project "MS-Tankstelle", Fraunhofer ISE and partners from industry therefore developed the medium voltage system technology for fast charging stations that will enable peak loads of several megawatts in the future. The technology, which uses efficient silicon carbide semiconductors and higher voltages, leads to lower material use and lower costs for fast charging stations.

Jan 17, 2025, 12:08:23 PM