Contact

Press & Communication

+49 (0) 441 798-5446

News

News search

Research Top News

Understanding the brain

Anatomist Anja Bräuer aims not just to gain a better understanding of the fundamentals of brain development but also to find ways to improve the…

more
Research Top News

Another success for Excellence Cluster “Hearing4all”

A major success: the University of Oldenburg’s hearing researchers will receive funding from the Excellence Strategy programme until 2026. Marine…

more
Research Top News

The smaller encounters are the most helpful

This week, the renowned particle physicist Mary K Gaillard is giving the opening speech at the 22nd German Conference of Women in Physics in…

more
Research Top News

From bird migration to quantum chemistry

For more than 15 years Henrik Mouritsen has been conducting research on magnetoreception in birds. Now, he has summarised the current scientific…

more
Research Top News

Fascinating Diskworld

Doctor of chemistry Jannika Lauth was awarded a Carl von Ossietzky Young Researchers' Fellowship earlier this year. In her research Lauth produces…

more
Research Top News Homepage

Stagnation in the South Pacific

A team led by geochemist Dr. Katharina Pahnke from Oldenburg has discovered important evidence that the rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels at…

more
Research Early Career Top News

How organisms process sensory stimuli

What happens at the molecular level when we smell, see and hear? At the University of Oldenburg the Research Training Group "Molecular basis of…

more
Research Top News

Layer by Layer, Cell by Cell

The skin, our largest sensory organ, is the subject of dermatologist Ulrike Raap‘s research

and medical care. She describes it as an “architectural…

more
Research Top News

Letting yourself be challenged

Religion has become a huge social topic once more since the start of the millennium. How can we coexist peacefully in a religiously diverse world?…

more
Research Top News

Oldenburg University in Academy Programme

As of 2018 Oldenburg University will take over the academic implementation of a project that has been included in Germany's largest research programme…

more
Research Top News

Not without reason

Following a test phase, German rail company Deutsche Bahn has announced plans to equip train station security personnel at trouble spots with body…

more
Research Top News

How Migratory Birds Solve the Longitude Problem

Migratory birds find their way to their destination with astonishing accuracy. For a long time it was unclear how they determined their east-west…

more
Research Top News

Species richness - a false friend?

Assessing the state of an ecosystem solely on the basis of short-term changes in the number of different species it contains can lead to false…

more
Research Top News

Small crustacean, crucial role

The Antarctic Krill, a small crustacean, is one of the world's most abundant species and the central diet of a number of animals in the Southern…

more
Research Top News

Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity officially founded

Addressing research gaps and providing the scientific basis for marine conservation – these are the aims of the Helmholtz Institute for Functional…

more
Research Top News

Venturing into the dark

It may not be a beauty – pale and rather inconspicuous – but in terms of evolutionary biology this fish is a sensation: the first known European cave…

more
Research Top News

Unique infrastructure for researching wind energy

Space for more than 130 scientists, a 30-metre-long measurement section and wind speeds of up to 150 kilometres per hour: the inauguration of the…

more
Research Top News

How far do invasive species travel?

Around the globe, an increasing number of plant and animal species are introduced into new regions through human activity. Researchers at the…

more
Research Top News

A new type of robotic microscope

Scientists at Oldenburg University can now use a "digitizing robotic microscope" for biological and medical research. Oldenburg University is one of…

more
Research Top News

Between the Atmosphere and the Ocean

Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor returned with a diverse crew of scientists who have newly found characteristics of the ocean’s “skin”…

more
(Changed: 20 Jun 2024)  | 
Zum Seitananfang scrollen Scroll to the top of the page