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Mental speed – the speed at which we can deal with issues requiring rapid decision-making – does not change substantially over decades. Psychologists at Heidelberg University have come to this conclusion. Under the leadership of Dr Mischa…

Plants contain numerous proteins that are needed to adapt to environmental conditions like drought stress. Because their production takes a lot of energy – about half of their energy requirement – plants must precisely regulate protein…

In a cross-discipline and cross-sectoral study, the team of psychologists, physicians, and social scientists investigated which pandemic-driven stress factors have emerged in medical personnel treating COVID-19 patients. They also…

The focus of the planned project is on what is known as Lynch syndrome. Carriers of this genetic predisposition have an increased risk of colon cancer as well as malignant tumours in other organs. It is the early stages of tumour…

A molecular switch influences addiction behaviour and determines how strong the response to addictive drugs is. A research team at Heidelberg University and the Sorbonne University in Paris (France) made the discovery in mice treated with…

“Scanning electron microscopes are preferred in cell imaging because they provide extremely sharp nanoscale images,” explains Venera Weinhardt, a post-doc at the COS and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley (USA). “But…

Magnetic systems can exhibit surprising behaviour when they are prepared in an unstable configuration. For example, constraining a collection of spatially disordered magnetic dipoles, such as bar magnets, to be aligned in the same…

The research programme focuses on the emergence and transformation of authority in government and civil society, social institutions, urban spaces, culture and religion, as well as shifting configurations of trust within the United States…

The gathering in Heidelberg is the third annual meeting of the 4EU+ Alliance. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the annual meeting could only take place online in 2020. Now, however, the alliance can again come together in person. On the…

Prof. Tajcmanova’s working group is studying mineralogical and petrological processes that occur in the Earth’s interior. Of significant interest is the lithosphere – the layer that makes up the outermost one hundred or so kilometres of…