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When we put water in a freezer, water molecules crystallize and form ice. This change from one phase of matter to another is called a phase transition. While this transition, and countless others that occur in nature, typically takes place at the same fixed conditions, such as the freezing point...

The German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG), the German Council of Science and Humanities (Wissenschaftsrat, WR), and the Joint Science Conference in Bonn have just announced that Universität Hamburg has been granted 4 clusters of excellence. An outstanding success for the...

Could microorganisms devour and rid the world of microplastics? Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Streit and his team in the Department of Biology at Universität Hamburg are trying to find out.

The German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) has granted funding for a new Center for Advanced Study at Universität Hamburg entitled The Futures of Sustainability: Modernization, Transformation, Control. Researchers want to understand how modern societies change when they...

Leonard Borchert’s goal is to make weather forecasts for the next 10 years more accurate. To do so, he has observed the North Atlantic, which strongly influences the weather in Europe. Borchert’s findings have now been published in the Journal of Climate. As a PhD candidate at CEN, he also knows...

Poor grades in elementary school almost put an early end to this young man’s pursuits. Now Mahmut Yüksel is working towards a double degree in medicine and informatics at Universität Hamburg and off to earn a medical doctorate at Harvard University.