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The picture shows a young wheatear. It is being held by a scientist and wears a small ring on its foot.
Heiko Schmaljohann
Excellence Strategy Research Biology

Migratory birds on a dangerous journey

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.

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Georg Langebrake
Excellence Strategy Research Biology

Inspired by the animal world

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.

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Microscopic picture of a microbial community.
Adobe Stock / Turgay Koca / Wirestock
Excellence Strategy Research Top News Marine Sciences

"Completely new worlds"

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.

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Aerial view of the rainforest, trees of different heights in front of a foggy sky.
Adobe stock / PREDRAG SEPELJ
Research Top News Computing Science

The sound of the rainforest

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.

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The picture shows a coral landscape in the Red Sea. The corals are reddish-brown in colour and are only a few metres below the surface.
Anna Roik / annaroik.org
Excellence Strategy Research Top News Marine Sciences

New concept for the protection of marine biodiversity

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.

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University of Oldenburg / Daniel Schmidt
Research EXU Excellence Strategy Top News Higher Education Policy

Full proposals submitted for three clusters of excellence

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.

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Michael Winklhofer stands at the field emission scanning electron microscope
University of Oldenburg / Matthias Knust
Excellence Strategy Research Top News Biology

A whole new world of experimental possibilities

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.

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The Energy Lab with its historical solar panels can be seen in front of trees and the blue sky.
University of Oldenburg / Daniel Schmidt
Research Energy Research Top News

The Oldenburg way

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.

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A student and two girls stand around a table tennis table painted yellow, all holding brushes and painting the playing fields white on the table.
Research Top News Teacher Education

Learning without realising it

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.

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Portrait of Hanin Karawani with Humboldt scarf.
University of Oldenburg / Matthias Knust
Hearing Research Excellence Strategy Research Top News International affairs

Research goal: good hearing for longer

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

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Image of a boulder in the Atlantic at a depth of 560 metres. On the rocks are brittle stars and crinoids, important organisms in the deep-sea ecosystem.
MARUM - Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen
Excellence Strategy Research Top News Marine Sciences

"One feels like a true explorer"

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.

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Maria Cardamone / The National Archives, Ref. HCA 32/952
Research Top News History

Unpack and marvel

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?

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Excellence Strategy Research Top News Marine Sciences

Biodiversity: A tale of change

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.

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Pattern of larger and smaller blue and red dots, irregularly distributed on a dark background.
Wienhausen et al, Nature
Research Top News Marine Sciences

Marine bacteria team up to produce a vital vitamin

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.

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Landesmuseum Natur und Mensch / Martin Henze
Research Top News History

Researching museum objects using AI

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.

 

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Close-up of a sample measuring approximately 1 cm by 1 cm, which is clamped in a holder and located in the vacuum chamber.
University of Oldenburg / Marcus Windus
Research Top News Chemistry

Turning carbon dioxide into useful chemicals

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.

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Drawing of a small green bird standing on a surface that looks like the field lines of the earth's magnetic field.
Corinna Langebrake
Research Excellence Strategy Biology

How evolution has optimised the magnetic sensor in birds

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.

 

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Research Top News Art History Philosophy

Imagination and philosophy without limits

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.

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The picture shows the marine bristle worm Platynereis dumerilii in a blue water basin.
Florian Raible / University of Vienna
Excellence Strategy Research Top News Marine Sciences

No two worms are alike

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.

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University of Oldenburg / Daniel Schmidt
Excellence Strategy Research Top News

Highly relevant research

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.

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