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Women in the care trap
Women in the care trap
Teaching yes, professorship no ? for many women, an academic career demands major sacrifices. »
What is the Dr. worth?
What is the Dr. worth?
More doctorates are being awarded in Germany than ever before ? but quality is falling by the wayside.»
At home abroad?
At home abroad?
International mobility has become a way of life for many academics. How do they feel about their homeland and foreign countries when they go abroad to research and teach? We asked two women in academia.»
The right chemistry
The right chemistry
Young researchers want to make the world a better, greener place. Interview with Ferdi Schüth.»
A question of honour
A question of honour
Universities must learn lessons from the Guttenberg case. Ten theories on the right way to handle poor or plagiarised work.»
Engineers from the pool
Engineers from the pool
How the automotive industry might be able to recover its junior staff during hard times.»
The drawbacks of the quota
The drawbacks of the quota
Experiences in other countries show that positive discrimination can become a disadvantage - for women too.»
Desperately seeking surgeons
Desperately seeking surgeons
One of the most important medical disciplines, surgery, is suffering from a shortage of new blood. Questions to the founder of the Deutsche Chirurgie Stiftung (German Surgery Foundation).»
Bologna 2.0 - between update and remake
Bologna 2.0 - between update and remake
Are Bologna reform and academic education a contradiction in terms, as critics claim? What must be changed or revived if the promise of "educational encounters" at university is to be filled with life again?»
Heureka ? or: when do scientists rejoice?
Heureka - or: when do scientists rejoice?
At the Junge Akademie, scientists of various disciplines have joined together to form the "Heureka" working group in order to pursue the question of when something is considered proven in which science.»
That's unfair too!
That's unfair too!
Women are treated preferentially in recruiting. Young men are losing out. A polemic.»
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3. February 2012
New International Research Initiative on the Evolution of Insects officially started
The 1KITE (1K Insect Transcriptome Evolution) project involves more than 50 scientists from all over the world. It will unravel the secrets of the evolutionary history of insects using a molecular data set of unparalleled dimensions and quality. Started in September 2011, the transcriptomes of 1,000 insect species will be investigated. Within the next two years, BGI, China - the world's largest genomic sequencing center - has invested initiating funds to enable this international project that requires roughly 6 Million dollars and has made its extensive sequencing infrastructure available to achieve this goal.  »
3. February 2012
SLU will lead new cooperation project in the Baltic Sea region
The Department of Forest Resource Management at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences has received EU funding of 3.3 million euro for the project "The Baltic Landscape in change - innovative approaches towards sustainable forested landscapes". The project will run until the end of June 2014.  »
3. February 2012
The Art of Recycling Pulsars
The formation of millisecond pulsars is the result of stellar cannibalism where matter flows from a donor star to an accreting pulsar in a binary system. During this process the pulsar emits X-rays while being spun up to amazingly high rotational speeds.Thomas Tauris (Bonn Univ. & MPIfR) can show that millisecond pulsars loose about half of their rotational energy during the final stages of the mass-transfer before the pulsar turns on its radio beam. This is in agreement with current observations and also explains why radio millisecond pulsars appear to be much older than their companion stars - and perhaps why no sub-millisecond radio pulsars exist at all. »
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