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Researchers at the University of Oldenburg are using electron microscopy images of SARS-CoV-2 to generate images that for the first time provide a highly detailed impression of the infection process. The new method relies on machine learning.

Marine paints can be a major source of microplastics in the North Sea. In a new study, Oldenburg environmental geochemists hypothesize that ships leave a kind of 'skid mark' in the water.

For many young people with intellectual disabilities this career trajectory seems preordained – yet their wishes and ideas are not particularly taken into account. Special education professor Andrea Erdélyi wants to change this.

The North Sea island of Spiekeroog is a huge natural laboratory: A team of researchers led by Gudrun Massmann and Luise Giani has studied how its wild eastern part has been transformed from a small sand flat into new land.

Autonomous zero-emission ships could decongest cities that have a network of small waterways. Oldenburg IT specialists are studying this environmentally friendly kind of freight transport in the EU project AVATAR.