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23 Mai 2022 / University of Bayreuth

Bayreuth physicist new member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities

Prof. Dr. Anna Köhler, Chair of Soft Matter Optoelectronics at the University of Bayreuth,…

20 Mai 2022 / University of Bayreuth

New life cycle assessment study shows useful life of tech-critical metals to be short

Worldwide, almost all technology-intensive industries depend on readily available metallic…

20 Mai 2022 / University of Augsburg

Technology-specific raw materials show a short useful life in the life cycle assessment

A team of researchers from Bordeaux, Augsburg and Bayreuth has studied 61 different metals…

19 Mai 2022 / University of Bayreuth

Honorary doctorate from the University of Bayreuth for the African sociologist and women's rights activist Fatou Sow

She is a pioneer of gender studies in Africa and a feminist who has combined her scholarly…

18 Mai 2022 / TUM

Role of vegetation in reducing thermal stress in urban areas

Scientists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) conducted a multi-year empirical…

18 Mai 2022 / University of Bayreuth

New study examines microplastic pollution in Rhine floodplain near Cologne

Microplastic particles can be deposited in river floodplains and penetrate into deeper…

18 Mai 2022 / JMU Würzburg

On the trail of urinary tract infections

The German government is providing about 2.4 million Euros for a new research group in…

16 Mai 2022 / University of Bayreuth

In Nature Communications: New insights into photoreceptors and biological light control

Plants, fungi, and bacteria perceive blue light through photoreceptors. Light triggers…

13 Mai 2022 / JMU Würzburg

Great progress thanks to mini organs

Life-like organ replicas - so-called 3D organoids - are a good way to research disease…

13 Mai 2022 / TUM

A repair program for the heart

Following a heart attack, the human body is incapable of repairing lost tissue due to the…