Major sporting events can lead to an increase in racially motivated hate crime. This is particularly the case when athletes who belong to an ethnic or religious minority are blamed for a country's poor performance.
Social Sciences
Jul 11, 2024
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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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Media psychologists at the University of Cologne have studied how students' individual needs, conceptions and reasons relate to cheating behavior in online exams.
Education
May 14, 2024
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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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In 2019, global travel to international academic conferences in the field of astronomy caused the equivalent of 42,500 tons of climate-damaging CO2 emissions. This equates to an average of one ton of CO2 per participant and ...
Astronomy
Apr 30, 2024
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A research team from the Universities of Cologne and Potsdam and the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research has found that the regional lines of the thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana), a small ruderal plant which ...
Ecology
Nov 2, 2023
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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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A new study shows that the closing of education and childcare facilities in Germany during the coronavirus pandemic actually had an impact on parents' employment, as the opening of facilities led to a rebound in their work ...
Social Sciences
Jun 2, 2023
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A study by Dr. Mirjam Fischer and colleagues at the University of Cologne's Institute of Sociology and Social Psychology (ISS) shows that children and adolescents with same-sex parents are just as well adjusted as those with ...
Social Sciences
May 23, 2022
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Tariffs on Russian energy imports could provide the EU with a lever to reduce Russia's financial gains from its oil and gas exports and allow it to flexibly react to Moscow's actions in Ukraine, a team of economists from ...
Economics & Business
Apr 28, 2022
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