Many sports activities for adolescents were cancelled during the COVID-19 pandemic. This had a noticeable impact on their development. Sports scientist Katharina Pöppel wants to help discover the joy of activity with an innovative exercise concept.

As part of the Northwest Alliance, the University of Oldenburg has just presented itself at the annual conference of the German Academic International Network. The aim: to enter into dialogue with researchers working in the USA.

Whether in solar cells or in the eye: when molecules absorb light, they trigger complex processes. An international research team led by the Ultrafast Nano-Optics working group has observed how the very first moments of this process unfold.

Judiciaries in a number of countries are increasingly under attack from populist parties. Political scientist Philipp Köker explains the strategy behind the trend – and how to counter it.

The global biodiversity targets adopted in 2022 are aligned with science and represent a major advance on the Aichi Targets adopted in 2010, an international research team reports in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

150,000 households recently received some unusual mail. They are invited to become participants in the "Lower Saxony Panel" and actively take part in research themselves - for example that of political scientist Jan Sauermann.

Australian bogong moths are famous for their long-distance migrations. An international team including Oldenburg researchers has discovered that the insects use the stars as a compass during their annual journey to cool inland caves.

Biodiversity in the Wadden Sea has undergone a noticeable reorganisation since the middle of the last century, according to a new study. Researchers from Oldenburg and Groningen have analysed biodiversity using a holistic approach for the first time.

Unusual research approaches in which disciplines that at first glance have little in common join forces is a defining feature of the new "booster units" that will commence their activities in the upcoming winter semester.

A new paper published in Science by a team including ecologist Iliana Baums urges regulatory reform to accelerate coral restoration using assisted gene flow – an essential step to safeguard the economic and ecologic services that reefs provide. 

A team led by marine researcher Oliver Wurl is travelling the Atlantic on the research vessel Meteor. Four team members talk about life on board, the top millimetre of the ocean and working with a television crew.

The German Research Foundation is funding the „DynaDeep” project by Oldenburg hydrogeologist Gudrun Massmann with around five million euros for a further four years. A large part of the research will take place on Spiekeroog.

Converting residential neighbourhoods to renewable energies is an important component of the energy transition. Researchers led by Astrid Nieße have investigated how this can be achieved in the "Future Energy Lab".

More rain in the winter, droughts in the summer: the climate is changing in the north-west of Lower Saxony. In the WAKOS project, environmental and social science researchers from Oldenburg are investigating ways to adapt to these changes.

A new study shows: The birth of a child has little overall influence on parents' concerns about environmental and climate issues – however, mothers and fathers show different developments in their concerns after the birth.

All three top research projects that applied in the Excellence Competition have been approved. The Clusters of Excellence Hearing4all, NaviSense and OceanFloor focus on hearing research, animal navigation and marine research.

Exercise keeps you fit - but balance can be impaired after intensive physical activity. Researchers at University Medicine Oldenburg want to counteract this dilemma.

Microbial ecosystems have tipping points where even small perturbations are enough to cause a collapse, according to a new study. Tom Clegg and Thilo Gross describe microbial communities as a network based on the exchange of metabolic by-products. 

Philosopher Alexander Max Bauer investigates to what extent people's needs must be covered in order for the society to perceive a distribution of goods as fair. His latest study focuses on the distribution of housing space.

Researchers led by Oscar Puebla have described a new species of fish in the Gulf of Mexico. The brightly patterned creature, Hypoplectrus espinosai, belongs to the hamlet group. The team published their findings in the journal Zootaxa.