For several years now, women have been voting more left-wing than men. This trend first appeared in the 2017 German general election and intensified in 2021. This has been shown by a study carried out by sociologist Dr. Ansgar ...
Social Sciences
Aug 2, 2023
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The defaults on a carbon offsetting website can cause a large percentage of customers to select faster CO2 compensation, even if this entails higher costs. In cooperation with a web portal offering carbon offsetting, a research ...
Social Sciences
Jun 23, 2022
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Water fleas, or Daphnia, ensure their survival by reacting to a signal substance of their predators (fish) with flight. The zoologist Meike Anika Hahn from Professor Dr. Eric von Elert's research group at the University of ...
Plants & Animals
May 9, 2019
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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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There is no specific set of skills that university graduates need in order to be successful professionally. Rather, the required skills vary according to different areas of the labor market and their specific requirements.
Economics & Business
May 13, 2024
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Who has never experienced this situation: Arriving in another city, you are completely dependent on taxi drivers, who know their way around, to take you where you want to go. However, sometimes you may suspect that you are ...
Economics & Business
Mar 13, 2017
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A community of microbial predators influences the composition of the bacterial community in wastewater. This explains seasonal variations in the microbial community that affect the efficiency of water treatment. This is the ...
Ecology
Jul 10, 2023
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Besides the skin, the digestive tract is the tissue that is most exposed to environmental influences such as bacteria and viruses. Therefore, cells that form these barriers to the interior of the body also have special defense ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 7, 2022
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A team of geoscientists have analyzed the composition of rocks in the Eifel, a volcanic region encompassing parts of western Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg. They discovered that it differs depending on the region.
Earth Sciences
Jun 6, 2024
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To make a fully grown organism in the right shape, the forms of many cells need to be changed in a coordinated way. Researchers from the Cluster of Excellence for Aging Research (CECAD) in Cologne identified a gene that is ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 23, 2018
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