Research in Bavaria

A team of biophysicists led by Prof. Dr. Oliver Bäumchen at the University of Bayreuth and biologists led by Dr. Maike Lorenz at the Culture Collection of Algae at Göttingen University has published a step-by-step guide for the reliable cultivation of the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas…

Presence of Virtual Characters with Specific Traits Can Reduce Physical Anxiety Responses

A recent collaborative study by the Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics and the Chair of Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Würzburg shows that virtual characters can…

Antarctic krill do not only react to external environmental influences such as light or food. They also use their internal clock to adapt to the extreme conditions of the polar environment. This is shown by a recently published study by an international research team led by the Alfred Wegener…