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.

Spoonworts in the Spanish Pyrenees at an altitude of approx. 2,000 meters.

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

Artistic illustration of a neuromorphic system of waveguides carrying light.

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

Close to sea level: Langkai Island rises only around 1.8 meters above mean sea level. Waves Repeatedly carry sediment away from the beach and wash up new sediment. This is why a continuous supply of new material is important

Algae instead of corals: A reef island adapts to changing environmental influences

Although it is surrounded by stressed coral reefs, an island in the Indonesian Spermonde Archipelago has not shrunk but continued to grow. Reef islands hence react dynamically to environmental changes that disturb their reef systems according to a new study by researchers from the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) in Bremen, Germany. Scientists examined the composition of the inhabited reef island Langkai off Makassar and reconstructed the course of the island's coastline since 1999. The results have recently been published in the journal Sedimentary Geology.

Jul 12, 2024, 12:20:53 PM