Migratory species are particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, habitat loss and environmental pollution. Several research groups are joining forces to gain new insights into the behaviour of migratory birds.

In this interview, biologists Henrik Mouritsen and Miriam Liedvogel explain the importance of animal navigation and orientation for nature conservation – as well as for quantum technologies and autonomous vehicles.

Computer scientist A. Murat Eren, who goes by Meren, is convinced that microbiology can contribute to solving many global challenges. In this interview, he talks about the astonishing progress the discipline has made in recent decades.

Developing new technologies to research biodiversity - that was the aim of XPRIZE Rainforest, a global competition involving more than 300 teams. Three doctoral students from the university also took part in the final.

Climate change also affects the oceans. But how can the marine life affected by it be protected beyond the scope of national jurisdiction? A new consortium of researchers including scientists from Oldenburg is investigating this.

The University's goal is to continue to be successful in the Excellence Strategy - preferably with three clusters of excellence in the future. Teams from animal navigation, marine and hearing research have now cleared another hurdle on the way.

The university recently acquired a particularly powerful electron microscope, which is also available to external users. It is capable of imaging structures as small as 0.5 billionths of a meter.

Oldenburg researchers were among the first to start investigating renewable energies back in the 1970s. On a tour of various locations on campus and around the city, we follow the unconventional path of the University’s energy research from its beginnings to the present day.

Shortly before the holidays, a project at the Institute of Educational Sciences made several primary schools in the region more colourful and gave students valuable practical experience. The focus was on community service, sustainability and creativity.

Hanin Karawani Khoury normally conducts her research at the University of Haifa in Israel.. Now the hearing scientist is spending a year at the University of Oldenburg on a Humboldt Research Fellowship

The oceans are home to much of the planet's biodiversity. They have a major influence on our climate and provide food for billions of people. To mark World Oceans Day, researchers from Oldenburg and Bremen report on why their research is important.

A 200-year-old knitted sweater from the Faroe Islands discovered in the Prize Papers Project has made headlines around the world. How come? And what else did the researchers discover when they opened four parcels for the first time?

Thousand-year-old sediments from the Atlantic Ocean show how biodiversity in the oceans could develop with climate change. A team from Bremen and Oldenburg is conducting joint research - also to better assess how to protect marine life in the future.

Two species of marine bacteria from the North Sea have established an unusual and sometimes destructive relationship to produce the important vitamin B₁₂. This is reported by researchers from Oldenburg and San Diego in the journal Nature.

The university has been selected to lead a collaborative project on provenance and collection research as part of the Wissenschaftsräume programme of the state of Lower Saxony and the Volkswagen Foundation, and is also involved in five other projects.

Artificial photosynthesis is the subject of a new research group at the Institute of Chemistry. The team aims to develop precious-metal-free catalyst materials to convert carbon dioxide using sunlight.

The magnetic sense of migratory birds is probably based on a special protein – this theory is supported by a new genetic study. A research team from the University of Oldenburg and the Institute of Avian Research found that the protein has been optimised through rapid selection.

Horst Janssen or Joseph Beuys, Dáli or Magritte - many artists have dedicated works to Immanuel Kant over the past 100 years, the 300th anniversary of his birth. A guest article on Kant and modern art by Matthias Weber.

In the animal kingdom, too, there are different personalities, each with their own lifestyle: even simple marine worms live their daily lives to their own individual rhythms, a new study suggests.

During visits to the university, the Minister of Science in Lower Saxony, Falko Mohrs, learned about the three Clusters of Excellence initiatives and the aims of the scientists in the fields of marine research, hearing research and animal navigation research.