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An international research team has rewritten the genetic history of our ancestors with the largest ever genome data set of European hunter-gatherers. 125 scientists worked on the study, led by scientists from the University of Tübingen…

This year's Tübingen Advancement Award for Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology goes to Briana N. Doering, junior professor at the University of Wyoming, USA. The scientist is being honored for her dissertation "Evaluating the Social…

A research team from the LMU Munich and the University of Tübingen gained new insights into how the ancient Egyptians embalmed the bodies of the deceased by analyzing residues on vessels in a mummification workshopThe archaeologists were…

The oncological top centers in Tübingen-Stuttgart (CCC-TS) and Ulm (CCCU) have been confirmed in their function as the joint location "NCT-SüdWest" of the extended National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT). The decision was announced by…

Hertie Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Brain Health (Hertie AI) in TuebingenThe Hertie Foundation finances the joint project with the University of Tübingen with 10 million eurosInstitute as a further building block in the Cyber…

An international research team led by the University of Tübingen, the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment (SHEP) in Tübingen and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig identified an…

Using the largest single telescope in the southern hemisphere, the SALT in South Africa, an international team of astronomers has discovered eight of the hottest stars in the universe. Its surface temperature is more than 100,000 degrees…

The Tübingen biotechnologist Lars Angenent receives the Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation. As the DFG announced in Bonn on Thursday, it is honoring his outstanding work in the field of environmental biotechnology: "His work…

Type 2 pontocerebellar hypoplasia, PCH2 for short, is a rare neurological disorder. It is associated with severe developmental disorders and limited life expectancy. In order to find a suitable therapy for the disease, researchers from…

The Tübingen University Council is calling on the state government to launch an aid program for the universities in view of the sharp rise in energy costs. "Unlike all other state universities in Baden-Württemberg, the universities have…