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New astronomical measurements in the infrared range have led to the identification of a heretofore unknown class of asteroids. An international research team including geoscientists from Heidelberg University has succeeded in…

A long-term funding project by the German Research Foundation (DFG) is to produce a twelve-volume “Handbuch des Staatsrechts” (Handbook of Constitutional Law). The editors responsible for the project are legal scholars Prof. Dr Hanno Kube…

For a research project exploring the history of fever, Prof. Dr Stefanie Gänger has been awarded valuable funding from the European Research Council (ERC), an ERC Consolidator Grant. Her ERC-funded project studies the prevalence and…

Tailor-made chemical complexes of certain elements from the group of metals could be suitable for use in a special way in medical imaging as well as potential applications in personalised precision medicine. This has been demonstrated by…

“Heidelberg, a University of Excellence, unites tradition and the future. The Faculty of Engineering Sciences officially opened in 2022 is a new departure for the university in terms of combining engineering and natural sciences. Its…

Ribosomes are the nanomachines of the cell whose task is the correct synthesis of proteins. Researchers at the Heidelberg University Biochemistry Center are studying the emergence of these “protein factories”, also known as ribosomes. Led…

In the course of optimising key procedures of genome editing, researchers from the department of Developmental Biology / Physiology at the Centre for Organismal Studies of Heidelberg University have succeeded in substantially improving…

According to Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, space and time are inextricably connected. In our Universe, whose curvature is barely measurable, the structure of this spacetime is fixed. In a laboratory experiment, researchers from…

Using the observations of a distant, very luminous galaxy, an international research team has discovered a cluster of galaxies with the aid of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and, at the same time, one of the densest known areas of…

Evolutionary pressure across male mammals to guarantee the procreation of their own offspring led to a rapid evolution of the testicle. Bioinformatic studies – conducted by an international team of researchers led by Prof. Dr Henrik…