The 50th episode of the podcast "Hirn gehört - Oldenburger Wissensschnack" will be released in May. We spoke to the presenter duo and provide an overview of more podcasts from the university cosmos.

A new study by University Medicine Oldenburg offers special training for older people after a fall. The researchers are investigating the extent to which targeted exercises can reduce the risk of falling.

A parent-child room in the library has provided space to study, work and play since the winter semester. It is designed to make it easier for students and researchers to combine everyday university life with childcare

How do early language experiences, especially bilingualism, affect the processing of language in the brain? This is the topic of a new Oldenburg project in the "Research Cooperation Lower Saxony - Israel" programme.

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.

What is the role of hydrothermal vents in the cycle of dissolved organic matter in the ocean? Researchers from the Universities of Bremen and Oldenburg have analysed samples from the Guaymas Basin in the Gulf of California.

Dr Daniel Kristanto wants to know what goes on in the human brain – not brains in general, but each individual brain. The University is now funding his "Individual Brain Project" for up to three years with a Carl von Ossietzky Young Researchers' Fellowship.

Digitalisation has profoundly changed academic education in recent years. The University of Oldenburg is involved in two large joint projects in Lower Saxony that are driving this development forward.

Even if they receive optimal medical care, children with hearing impairments may need extra support with vocabulary for years to come, research by the scientists in the Cluster of Excellence Hearing4all indicates.

The University does many things to make settling in easier for international students in Oldenburg. Intercultural facilitators listen to their problems and offer support and guidance – and there’s also plenty of fun to be had.

For the first time, the most prestigious award for early-career researchers goes to an Oldenburg scientist: geoscientist Sinikka Lennartz receives the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize for her computational modelling of organic carbon in the oceans.

Two projects in the fields of hearing research and political science have received funding from the state of Lower Saxony. The focus is on the influence of bilingualism on listening comprehension and the construction of social groups by political parties.

The dozen is full - but the ideas for further joint topics, projects and synergies are almost endless: the 12th annual meeting between the University of Oldenburg and the city leadership took place on Monday.

Master's students specialising in Computing Science and Business Informatics have developed a portable measuring station that can be used to detect floods at an early stage, among other things. The fire brigade, THW and NLWKN have shown interest.

Time plays an important role in medical decisions at different stages of life. The German Research Foundation is funding research into these relationships for a further four years. New spokesperson is Mark Schweda. 

Should the phase-out of the combustion engine be postponed or cancelled? A strategy paper with the participation of economists Jörn Hoppmann and Hauke Lütkehaus looks at the consequences of the "combustion engine phase-out" for the automotive industry.

The first coronavirus lockdown was imposed five years ago. A new study by sociologist Gundula Zoch shows that political trust has changed significantly during the pandemic years – in some cases with long-term consequences.

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) at universities is the topic of a new research group headed by Heinke Röbken. The team is investigating fields of application and the use of AI in research, administration, studying and teaching.

How can school labs promote young talent in the STEM subjects and humanities? Around 180 people talked about this at the 20th annual conference of Lernortlabor e.V., the federal association of school laboratories.

Museum researcher Christopher Sommer studies how museums represent wars and how this is perceived by visitors. His research reveals that there is often a large gap between the desired effect and the actual impact on the public.