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.

Aging and old age affect everyone. Geriatrician Tania Zieschang and philosopher Mark Schweda approach the topic from different perspectives. An interview about protecting the elderly in the pandemic, robots in care – and what stays with us.

History is not only something you read about; it can also be heard and felt. Together with her team, musicologist Anna Langenbruch researches how music history is presented on stage.

Can wind farms be treated as collective systems similar to insect swarms? Physicist and Ossietzky Fellow Michael Sinhuber is combining swarm and turbulence research with the goal of optimising wind farm control.

Today, coffee and tea are dietary staples for many people, but 400 years ago stimulants such as coffee and tea were exotic rarities. The collaborative research project "Intoxicating Spaces" investigates their impact on European societies.

From the "Voluntary Scientific Year" at the University of Oldenburg to Jugend forscht: young scientist Max Kehrer wins the regional competition.

Nanoparticles made of metals and semiconductors have fascinating properties. A German-Swedish research team reports in the journal Nature Communications how a new material increases light emission.

Helping people with impaired hearing to enjoy music more is the long-term goal of Oldenburg hearing researcher Kai Siedenburg. His outstanding research in this area has now earned him a "Freigeist" fellowship from the Volkswagen Foundation.

Around 100 experts from all over the world gathered at the "Marine Microbiota" symposium in Oldenburg at the end of August. Here, the host of the event, microbiologist Meinhard Simon, explains why these marine bacteria are so important.

When does the whirring of fans sound pleasant? Two hearing researchers from Oldenburg are tracking the acoustic quality of ventilation.

Anyone planning a wind farm needs precise information about the prevailing wind conditions. The NEWA (New European Wind Atlas) research project, in which Oldenburg researchers were also involved, is now providing the necessary data.

How can agricultural land be made more attractive to insects without reducing yields? Oldenburg biologists are investigating this in an EU project.

Carbon instead of silicon: the next revolution in electronics could be based on so-called organic semiconductors. Physicist Manuela Schiek is working on a group of these materials that react very specifically to light.

Researchers led by Dirk Albach are on the trail of the secret of the success of the widespread plant genus Veronica. In doing so, they are addressing one of the most topical questions in biology: What actually is a species?

Special physical laws apply to distances of less than a hair's breadth. The physicist Svend-Age Biehs explores these amazing phenomena. He recently received the Gustav Hertz Prize from the German Physical Society.

In the REENEA project, scientists led by sociologist Jannika Mattes are researching the regional energy transition as a social process. The initial results from Oldenburg are now available - and generated discussion at a stakeholder workshop.

Medical physicists at the University of Oldenburg are investigating not only terrestrial but also cosmic radiation - a connection that only appears unusual at first glance.

What can be done to fight multidrug-resistant germs in German hospitals? A Dutch-German team led by medical microbiologist Alexander Friedrichs is looking for solutions.