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The relationship between city inhabitants and urban animals is complex, as the study shows. The researchers conducted a survey to find out how Munich residents rate 32 urban animal species and where in the city they would prefer to see…

The Humboldt Professorships aim to attract top talent from all over the world to German universities. Each professorship is endowed with up to five million euros, making it the most highly endowed research award in Germany. The Humboldt…

From road traffic accidents to fires and murders, dramatic causes of death receive considerable media attention. The scientific consensus to date has been that, because the media report dramatic causes of death more frequently than “silent”…

The GARMI assistance robot is becoming increasingly versatile and intelligent. As researchers from TUM's Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI) demonstrated at the 2024 International Conference on Robotics and…

TUM students have again given their university an excellent report card. For the CHE University Rankings they rated various aspects of their degree programs. In all of the assessed subject areas the students reported outstanding levels of…

To recreate the effects of climate change under realistic conditions, the researchers used soil-plant mesocosms. These miniature ecosystems consist of units containing soil samples. By moving the mesocosms along an elevation gradient from…

The relationship between city inhabitants and urban animals is complex, as the study shows. The researchers conducted a survey to find out how Munich residents rate 32 urban animal species and where in the city they would prefer to see…

AI in Society Artificial intelligence development is progressing rapidly, and AI technologies are finding their way into more and more areas of everyday life. This process is accompanied by numerous challenges, whether it is with…

In cancer, tumors often impair the body's immune response. For example, they can prevent immune cells from perceiving cancer cells as a threat or render them inactive. Immunotherapies aim to overcome these mechanisms and stimulate the…

The TUM researchers were an essential part of the "Plants and Fungal Trees of Life" (PAFTOL) project. In almost 5 years of work, the DNA of the cell nucleus was extracted from plant material in museums around the world, and the…