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Social Sciences Jun 8, 2026

How Facebook users affected by data breaches react over time examined

A new study by Mannheim Business Administration professor Hartmut Höhle examines the reactions of actual victims of the Cambridge Analytica scandal on Facebook over a longer period. Its key finding is that, despite being ...

Paleontology & Fossils Jun 3, 2026

Taimering mammoth was likely butchered by hunters and gatherers

The wooly mammoth from Taimering (Bavaria, Germany), discovered in 2020, was buried in a former Ice Age pond after its death. Pollen findings and radiocarbon dating confirm that the mammoth lived and died during the harsh ...

Social Sciences Jan 24, 2026

Radicalism, extremism, fundamentalism: International study finds numerous commonalities—and certain differences

From a social sciences perspective, people with radical, extremist, or fundamentalist attitudes are similar in some respects: In most cases, they are younger and less educated men who feel that they are not taken seriously ...

Other Dec 13, 2025

Saturday Citations: Nice people are happier; Uranus may not be icy; SIM farm reporting

This week, researchers identified signaling pathways underpinning drug resistance in pancreatic cancer, a normally lethal diagnosis. A physicist proposed that conscious states in the brain may arise from the brain's ability ...

Social Sciences Nov 7, 2025

Immigrants share democratic basic values, international study finds

Migrants in Europe stand by the basic values of democracy, according to a new study conducted by a research team led by Professor Marc Helbling, sociologist at the University of Mannheim focusing on Migration and Integration ...

Plants & Animals Oct 10, 2025

Hippos survived in Europe well into the last ice age, study finds

Hippos, today restricted to sub-Saharan Africa, survived in central Europe far longer than previously assumed. Analyses of bone finds demonstrate that hippos inhabited the Upper Rhine Graben sometime between approximately ...

Archaeology Sep 11, 2025

Metals reveal trade in Bronze Age more connected than previously thought

In the Bronze Age, the so-called Nuraghe culture flourished in Sardinia. A culture that is known for tower-like stone constructions, nuraghers, and for the small bronze figures, bronzetti, which often depict warriors, gods ...

Bio & Medicine Aug 21, 2025

Nanodroplets could speed up the search for new medicine

Until now, the early phase of drug discovery for the development of new therapeutics has been both cost- and time-intensive. Researchers at KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) have now developed a platform on which extremely ...

Bio & Medicine Aug 21, 2025

Nanodroplets could speed up the search for new medicine

Until now, the early phase of drug discovery for the development of new therapeutics has been both cost- and time-intensive. Researchers at KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) have now developed a platform on which extremely ...

Social Sciences Jun 5, 2025

Beauty is an advantage, but not everywhere

A new study by researchers at the University of Mannheim demonstrates how cultures evaluate attractiveness differently and the influence this evaluation can have on social success.

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