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…

The university is using heat energy more efficiently: It recovers waste heat from its computer centre, saving 100 tonnes of CO₂ per year, making it…

Pop music can normalise populism, says musicologist Mario Dunkel. In the following interview he explains how this happens and what it means – for…

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…

Thousand-year-old sediments from the Atlantic Ocean show how biodiversity in the oceans could develop with climate change. A team from Bremen and…

What does the US sound like? This intriguing question and its many facets will soon be the subject of a conference at the university. Americanist…

Two species of marine bacteria from the North Sea have established an unusual and sometimes destructive relationship to produce the important vitamin…

The properties of complex crystal surfaces can be calculated automatically using a new method. This could speed up the search for suitable materials…

The university has been selected to lead a collaborative project on provenance and collection research as part of the Wissenschaftsräume programme of…

As Consultant for Strategic Projects at the Department for Research and Transfer, Dr Ineke Hess is responsible for the Excellence Strategy. The…

Artificial photosynthesis is the subject of a new research group at the Institute of Chemistry. The team aims to develop precious-metal-free catalyst…

Today marks the 300th anniversary of Immanuel Kant's birth. Anyone thinking about war and peace, responsibility or objectivity will find plenty of…

In the animal kingdom, too, there are different personalities, each with their own lifestyle: even simple marine worms live their daily lives to their…

Coral farming based on sexual propagation, leading to a more sustainable coral trade and helping to protect coral reefs – this is the goal of SciReef,…

One hundred days in office: chemist Katharina Al-Shamery, theologian Andrea Strübind and literary scholar Ralf Grüttemeier joined the Presidential…

During visits to the university, the Minister of Science in Lower Saxony, Falko Mohrs, learned about the three Clusters of Excellence initiatives and…

Digital models of battery factories could help increase the production of lithium-ion batteries in Europe significantly in the coming years. Computer…

A telescope on the roof of the physics building scans the sky for newly discovered near-Earth asteroids. Using a sophisticated automated observation…

Oldenburg professor Clemens Hillenbrand has been training Iraqi teachers in inclusive education for many years. The special needs educationalist…

We hear with our ears, but the brain plays a key role in understanding. Researchers in biological psychology have gained new insights into the…