Researchers at the University Medicine are developing an app-based assistance system that contributes to healthy living. The challenge: The target group is older adults who often have little experience with technology.

The energy-levels of semiconductors can be rearranged so that a formerly dark material becomes optically active. A research team led by Oldenburg physicists used an ultra-thin sample of a special semiconductor to put the idea into practice.

The question of how to fairly distribute scarce goods is a recurring topic of public debate, currently connected with possible gas shortage. Philosophers provide empirical evidence in a new study - using the example of a different heating material.

The universities of Groningen and Oldenburg have been cooperating for more than 40 years. On Thursday, representatives of both universities met for a strategic exchange. Among them: the "Mobile Speech Lab" of the Groningen University.

What do a French composer in present-day Haiti, a Flensburg missionary overseas and a Bremen sailor on board a ship captured in the English Channel have in common? The project „Prize Papers” brings their long-ago experiences back to life.

Culture has long been seen as a unifying force among peoples. The war in Ukraine has destroyed this certainty, says Germanist Silke Pasewalck. Here, she talks about how even the great Russian authors are now being reassessed.