University of Tübingen

The environmental biotechnologist Lars Angenent from Tübingen and his team are involved in a new research center that aims to develop technologies for the capture, storage and recycling of carbon dioxide (CO2). The interdisciplinary…

The Etruscans, whose heyday was in the Iron Age in central Italy around 800 BC. BC, were closely related to their neighbors, the Latins in the region of Rome. Large proportions of the common genetic heritage point to ancestors from the…

Researchers from the Universities of Tübingen and Zaragoza have come across a previously unknown species of otter from layers 11.4 million years old at the Hammerschmiede fossil site. The excavation site in the Allgäu became known…

Muslim juvenile prisoners are disadvantaged when it comes to religious support compared to their Christian fellow prisoners. This is shown by a study by the Institute for Criminology at the University of Tübingen in cooperation with the…

Neanderthals, who lived in the Swabian Alb more than 45,000 years ago, used sophisticated techniques with branched work processes in the manufacture of stone tools. This is evidenced by collections of stone artefacts from the site…

Like animals, plants also have an immune system that reacts to attacks by microbial pathogens. It consists of two branches: the first defense measures begin with the detection of such intruders outside the cells, a second alarm path is…

The Lochenstein near Balingen was settled from the second millennium BC until Roman times. This is supported by new finds from an excavation that archaeologists from the University of Tübingen completed on Friday. The scientists built on…

Two fossil finds from the Green River Formation in Wyoming, USA, around 52 million years old, have been classified into the evolutionary history of crocodiles in a new study: the biogeologists Jules Walter and Dr. Márton Rabi from the…

Parental influence plays a significant role in the career choice of teachers. If parents want their children to take up a teaching degree, the probability is particularly high that they will follow suit. Having one parent teaching also…

The oldest analyzed genome of a modern human from the Wallacea area, the islands between western Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, shows a composition of human relationships that has not yet been described. The individual from whose skull…