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.

Flies, dust and even microplastics - spider webs capture whatever travels through the air. Researchers have now for the first time tested if they can get an overview of plastic particles in urban air by examining cobwebs.

Intelligent hearing aids that work even in difficult acoustic environments – that's what researchers at the university are working on in the Collaborative Research Center "Hearing Acoustics". It now receives funding for another four years.

The way families live together has changed over time. A team of researchers led by Oldenburg social scientist Dr Kai Willführ is using historical data to investigate the impact of family structures on the life of individual family members.

The aim of a pilot project in Hamburg is to provide better support for children and young people with abnormalities, problems and stress. Researchers from Oldenburg are carrying out the evaluation.

How can brain stimulation, for example through electric current or medication, help people with neurological diseases? This question is at the centre of a new research group in psychology funded by the German Research Foundation.

The microlayer between ocean and atmosphere is at the center of a new research group led by Oldenburg scientists. Over the next four years, the team will study this unique environment where harsh conditions prevail.

Speech recognition software is on the rise thanks to smart home systems. Researchers from Oldenburg have now taught an artificial intelligence to hear like an actual human. This could help people with hearing aids in the future.

CARL and EDDY have ensured excellent conditions for research at the University of Oldenburg for the past five years. Now the two high-performance computers are making way for their supercomputer successors, whose names have yet to be decided.

Anna Katharina Schliehe is interested in experiences of incarceration. The human geographer has been awarded a fellowship by the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme.

Fish migrations generally take place hidden from view. Researchers from the Magnetoreception Collaborative Research Centre at the University of Oldenburg are investigating how herring, sticklebacks and coral fish find their way in the sea.

Silja Stegemeier is an artistic associate for vocal training at the Institute of Music. Among other things, she teaches prospective music teachers how to form a choir. She recently became the director of the university choir.

Snow-white deep-sea crabs populate the seabed near hydrothermal vents. Oldenburg microbiologist Thorsten Brinkhoff was on the track of the animals with the submersible Alvin.

In a citizen science project, volunteers analysed the nitrogen pollution of water bodies in the Weser-Ems region. The team presented the results yesterday.

Dirk Weyhe sees IT and digitalization playing an integral role in the operating rooms of the future. He and his team are working to harness new technologies for surgical procedures.

Capturing "enemy" ships and their cargo was once considered a legitimate tactic of warfare - including an own jurisdiction. The open-access portal of the Academy project "Prize Papers" launches today with insights into about 1,500 capture trials.

Protecting the oceans and using them sustainably: This is the goal of the second research mission of the German Marine Research Alliance, which officially starts today. A joint project led by Oldenburg researchers is part of the mission.

Relatives often hire a live-in caregiver for persons with dementia. The relationship between patient, carer and family members can lead to moral conflicts that researchers from Oldenburg and Tel Aviv are exploring in a joint study.

The niche is all the rage in the context of sustainability. Whether understood spatially or metaphorically as a place of retreat - legal historian Johanna Rakebrand and sociologist Jędrzej Sulmowski talk about its appeal in this interview.

Deterioration in speech understanding when the speaker is wearing a mask mainly has visual causes. They are even more significant than the acoustic attenuation caused by the masks.