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Information in the brain is transmitted via electrical signals between specialised cells, the neurons. Large networks of such neurons control perception, behaviour and cognition. Science has long searched for ways to simulate neural…

Take carbon dioxide, hydrogen and oxygen as well as electricity from renewable sources - that's all a bacterium and baker's yeast need to produce proteins for human nutrition and the vital vitamin B9 in a sophisticated bioreactor system in…

The only bear species from the approximately 11.5 million year old Hammerschmiede site in the Allgäu was a relative of the giant panda, but its diet was more similar to the mixed plant-animal diet of today's brown bears. This was discovered…

On the early Earth, the atmosphere did not yet contain oxygen; nevertheless, the iron dissolved in the oceans was oxidized in gigantic quantities and deposited as rock, for example as banded iron ores in South Africa. Different bacteria…

The Studium Generale at the University of Tübingen will start on October 21, 2024 for the winter semester 2024/25 with three public lecture series: Topics include the role of aesthetic practices in different social fields, the view of…

University of Tübingen and the Higher Regional Court of Stuttgart have entered into a cooperation agreement to strengthen the rule of law that is unique in Baden-Württemberg. Legal science and jurisprudence will work more closely together…

The Israeli philosopher Omri Boehm will receive the Alfons Auer Ethics Prize 2024. The prize is awarded by the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Tübingen and the Academy of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart. The nomination…

This year, the Barbara Scholkmann Prize for Historical Archaeology goes to Attila Dézsi for his dissertation submitted to the University of Hamburg on a topic from the contemporary archaeology of the 20th century. The prize, which is…

The University of Tübingen has filled three professorships at the new Institute for Research on Right-Wing Extremism (IRex). Professor Léonie de Jonge researches "Political Actors, Organizations and Ideologies" and thus represents the first…

Mammoth, bison, wild horse, cave lion and cave bear - more than 30 figurative art objects from the Late Paleolithic period have already been discovered in the caves of the Swabian Alb during archaeological excavations. The majority depict…