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In behavioral experiments, crows can learn to make a predetermined number of calls. They plan in advance: the sound of the first call in a counting sequence can be used to predict how many calls the crow will make. This was discovered by a…

Children of Neanderthals, who lived up to around 40,000 years ago, and modern humans of the Late Paleolithic period between 50,000 and 12,000 years ago were probably exposed to comparable stress, but the highest intensity was in different…

Certain minerals with distinctive shapes may indicate the activity of bacteria in deep-sea hot springs several billion years ago. They make a crucial contribution to understanding the origins of life. This is what the study by a research…

From today's perspective, they look like a cross between a horse and a gorilla: clawed animals (Chalicotheriidae) had a massive body and a horse-like head; their arms were much longer than their legs and had claws. They belonged to the…

This year, the Communicator Prize of the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Stifterverband goes to an interdisciplinary team from the University of Tübingen: Ulrike von Luxburg, computer science professor for the theory of machine…

On Tuesday, June 18, 2024 at 6:30 p.m., the journalist and presenter ( today's journal, among others) Dunja Hayali will speak in the university's ballroom (Neue Aula, Brüder-Scholl-Platz). Her lecture will be about the new power of…

Whether human or dinosaur: In the skull of most land vertebrates there is a hole in the temple area, and in the case of most reptiles there are even two. Scientists have been looking for explanations for these skull shapes for 150 years. A…

Plant leaves need a large area to capture sunlight for photosynthesis. Dr. Emanuele Scacchi and Professor Marja Timmermans from the Center for Molecular Biology of Plants at the University of Tübingen, together with an international team,…

An international research team led by Dr. Gabriel S. Ferreira from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen has described a new species of giant tortoise from the late Pleistocene. …

The University of Tübingen is once again honoring its researchers' innovative and successful science communication. The Tübingen Prize for Science Communication 2024 goes equally to the Eastern European historian Professor Klaus Gestwa for…