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As part of the Theater of the World festival, the first-ever Hamburg Harbor Conference will also be taking place. On six nights from 26 Mai to 2 June´respectively, four academics from Hamburg's universities and research institutions will be discussing on their work on harbor cities. [Read on in...

The economist and sociologist Prof. Dr. Alexander Bassen from Universität Hamburg has received the B.A.U.M award from the Bundesdeutschen Arbeitskreises für Umweltbewusstes Management (German working group for environmentally friendly management) in the science category. The jury praised his...

Hamburg is teeming with petrified sponges, snails, mollusks, and squid but who would think of a trip to the mall as a dip in the primordial sea? Samantha Brose, a student of geology and paleontology at Universität Hamburg, is researching the marble in the Bergedorf City Center and Rahlstedt Center...

Considered the father of nuclear chemistry, Otto Hahn nonetheless became one of the most vehement critics of nuclear armament. Journalist Dietrich Hahn will talk about his grandfather in an open colloquium hosted by the Department of Physics and the Verein der Freunde und Förderer der Physik at...

Hamburg is green—but green enough? What about species diversity in the city? How are climate change and urbanization changing city life? The Day of Urban Nature, The GEO-Tag der Natur e.V. and CeNak will be cooperating for the first time to host Hamburg's largest nature event (16–18 June 2017)...

Studying and starting a family seems for many an impossibility, with the chasm between lectures and baby bottles too wide to bridge. On the International Day of the Family (15 May) we would like to introduce you to a student at Universität Hamburg who manages just that and shows how studying and...

On 27 April the new lobby of CeNak's new Zoological Museum will be ceremoniously opened. The lobby is barrier-free and eases the pedestrian traffic in front of the Martin-Luther-King-Platz entrance. An interactive exhibit also provides a taste of a possible new natural history museum in Hamburg...

More journals, more paper, more pressure: Martin Husemann (34), head of the Department of Entymology at the CeNak, and colleagues from the Technical University of Munich have investigated how researchers in the field of biology perceive tthe rise in publications. [Read on in German]

Historical documents, artworks, and collective knowledge are crucial to a society's historical consciousness and identity. Political conflicts and social collapse often lead to the destruction of cultural heritage, e.g., the desecration of holy World Heritage Sites and writings in Timbuktu (Mali) in...