An international research team led by the University of Cologne has succeeded for the first time in connecting several atomically precise nanoribbons made of graphene, a modification of carbon, to form complex structures. ...
Nanomaterials
May 12, 2021
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Oxygen is essential for the development of higher life. However, it was hardly present in the oceans of the young Earth. It was not until the evolution of photosynthetic bacteria that the oceans saw a significant increase ...
Earth Sciences
May 6, 2021
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A research team at the University of Cologne has discovered previously undescribed bacteria in amoebae that are related to Legionella and may even cause disease. The researchers from Professor Dr. Michael Bonkowski's working ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 30, 2021
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Ecologists at the University of Cologne's Institute of Zoology have for the first time demonstrated the enormously high and also very specific species diversity of the deep sea in a comparison of 20 deep-sea basins in the ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 27, 2021
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Certain signaling proteins, which are responsible for the development of innate immune function in almost all animals are also required for the formation of the dorsal-ventral (back-belly) axis in insect embryos. A new study ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 21, 2021
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Bacteria integrate genetic material from other bacterial strains more easily than previously thought, which can lead to improved fitness and accelerated evolution. This is shown in a recent study by biophysicists at the University ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 8, 2021
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To contain the COVID-19 pandemic by having as many as possible people adopt preventive measures, including social distancing and improved hygiene, it is crucial for public authorities to first figure out what makes the society ...
Social Sciences
Feb 22, 2021
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A research team including the geobiologist Dr. Helge Missbach from the University of Cologne has detected organic molecules and gases trapped in 3.5-billion-year-old rocks. A widely accepted hypothesis says that the earliest ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 19, 2021
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Dry and cloudless weather was mainly responsible for the unusually high solar irradiance in western Europe during the spring of 2020, not the reduction in aerosol emissions due to the first lockdown. This was the result of ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 16, 2021
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Writing in PNAS, scientists from Cologne university present important new constraints showing that plate tectonics started relatively slow, although the early Earth's interior was much hotter than today.
Earth Sciences
Dec 22, 2020
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