The research group led by biologist Prof. Arp Schnittger from Universität Hamburg has received the 2018 HFSP Research Grant together with international partners from France, Chile, and the USA. The Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) is an international research funding agency in the life...

More than 400 research projects currently involving about 240 scientists and scholars at Universität Hamburg have a connection to the topic of sustainability. What projects these are and who is working on them—find out using the new interactive Sustainability Research Map, online now.

As part of the EU-funded Improving Quality of Care in Europe (IQCE) European Training Network, a total of 15 doctoral candidates from all over the world are developing concepts to improve the European healthcare system. Six European partner universities are offering the program, including...

Where does an artwork come from? Who traded or plundered it, or who might have destroyed it? And to whom does it rightfully belong? Provenance research is an art history discipline concerned with the origins of art objects. At Universität Hamburg, Gesa Jeuthe has been appointed to the Liebelt...

We only recycle a small amount of plastics such as PET (polyethylene terephthalate), used to make bottles and packaging. Most ends up in the environment, where it takes a very long time to decompose. According to the German Environment Agency (UBA), it takes up to 450 years for a plastic bottle...

Dritter Anneliese Maier-Forschungspreis für die Universität Hamburg: Die Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung hat einen mit 250.000 Euro dotierten Anneliese Maier-Forschungspreis an Prof. Dr. Ingrid Piller verliehen. Die Soziolinguistin forscht an der australischen Macquarie University zu...

The Desis bobmarleyi is a new species of spider discovered in the corals of Australia. The spider has now been described for the first time in Evolutionary Systematics, the scientific journal published by the Center of Natural History (CeNak). We asked spider researcher Dr. Danilo Harms why the...

Radiation from outer space continuously reaches Earth in the form of electrically charged particles. While many hail from the sun, there are also extremely energy-rich particles whose origins have remained unexplained since their discovery in the 1960s. Over 400 researchers from 18 countries...

This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to three pioneers of cryo-electron microscopy, a path-breaking technology enabling us to examine native biological samples using high resolution at low temperatures. Structural biologist Prof. Dr. Kay Grünewald researches in this field and explains to...