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Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other neurodegenerative diseases are associated with inflammatory processes in the brain. Tübingen researchers have succeeded in identifying a group of proteins in the cerebrospinal fluid that could provide…

The Black Death, the largest pandemic in human history, was caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and ravaged Europe between 1346 and 1353. It had immense demographic and societal impacts, but its origins have long been a mystery. Using…

Geckos already lived in Europe 47 million years ago. This was the result of the examination of an almost complete fossil gecko skull from the former lignite mining area Geiseltal in Saxony-Anhalt. The previously unknown species was…

A team of German and Kurdish archaeologists has uncovered a 3,400-year-old city from the time of the Mittani Empire on the Tigris, which had emerged from the waters of the Mosul reservoir. This was made possible because the water level in…

Scientists from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen have identified the fossils of a previously unknown crocodile species in Vietnam. The almost four meter long, almost completely…

German and Egyptian researchers have uncovered a series of colorful ceiling paintings in the temple of Esna in Upper Egypt. As Professor Christian Leitz from the University of Tübingen reported, the relief-like images of the middle…

Tübingen scientists are examining skulls found around eleven million years old from the Hammerschmiede clay pit in the AllgäuDeer piglets are among the smallest ruminants in the world. Today they live in the tropics of Africa and Asia and…

Scientists from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen have identified the fossils of a previously unknown crocodile species in Vietnam. The almost four meter long, almost completely…

When stars like our Sun run out of fuel, they shrink into white dwarfs. Sometimes such objects flare up again in a superheated explosion, producing a fireball of X-rays. A research team led by Friedrich-Alexander-Universität…

In the so-called MINT subjects - mathematics, computer science, natural sciences and technology - up to 40 percent of students drop out of their studies in the introductory phase. A research team from the Methods Center of the Faculty of…