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All the latest on the German higher education system: career news, articles and interviews.

Practising for space
Practising for Space
Italian Samantha Cristoforetti is soon to be an astronaut, and the only woman among those currently training at ESA in Cologne for their first space mission.»
Pan's Dream
Pan's Dream
Chinese physicist Pan Jianwei plans to re-invent communication and computers - with quantum mechanics German bread and sausage are helping him do it.»
"Enough Complaining!"
An interview with the great educational reformer Hildegard Hamm-Brücher about Bachelor, Master and the democratisation of Germany's universities.»
Laboratories of the Pioneer Spirit
Laboratories of the Pioneer Spirit
Yesterday Harvard, today Dresden-Klotzsche: what's drawing excellent researchers to Saxony's capital city.»
Private Universities as Niche Providers
Private Universities as Niche Providers
In Germany, private universities are still niche providers, because the state universities are financially better off and generally able to attract the better students and professors.»
Overworked
Overworked
Young German scientists are unhappy about the Bologna reform.»
Universities and the economic crisis
Universities and the Economic Crisis
How universities can benefit from the economic crisis.»
Summer, sunshine, seminar
Summer, Sunshine, Seminar
An overview of German Summer Universities. More and more universities in Germany are discovering the summer too.»
Excellence Initiative
Excellence Initiative
The government and society in Germany are key factors why the importance of science and research continues to grow.»
biodiversity
Biodiversity - Often Advocated, Rarely Funded
Everyone wants to preserve biodiversity - but the necessary expertise is threatening to disappear. A conversation with zoologist Alexander Haas from Hamburg.»
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9. April 2013
Iceman Ötzi had bad teeth
For the first time, researchers from the Centre for Evolutionary Medicine at the University of Zurich together with colleagues abroad have been able to provide evidence of periodontitis, tooth decay and accident-related dental damage in the ice mummy 'Ötzi'. The latest scientific findings provide interesting information on the dietary patterns of the Neolithic Iceman and on the evolution of medically significant oral pathologies.  »
9. April 2013
New chart shows the entire topography of the Antarctic seafloor in detail for the first time
Reliable information on the depth and floor structure of the Southern Ocean has so far been available for only few coastal regions of the Antarctic. An international team of scientists under the leadership of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, has for the first time succeeded in creating a digital map of the entire Antarctic seafloor. »
9. April 2013
Particles Changing Angle: Unexpected Orientation in Capillaries
When small particles flow through thin capillaries, they display an extremely unusual orientation behaviour. This has recently been discovered by a research team led by Prof. Stephan Förster and Prof. Walter Zimmermann (University of Bayreuth). The participating scientists of Bayreuth University, the Radboud University Nijmegen, the research centre DESY in Hamburg, and the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen report their new findings in the scientific journal PNAS. The discovery is of major importance for spinning processes designed for the production of synthetic fibres, and the understanding of vascular stenosis. »
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Career Advice
Funding Opportunities in Research
Germany is Europe's number one research location. »
Career Advice
Postdocs
The term "postdoc" refers to the period of time between the completion of a doctoral degree and the possible appointment to a tenured professorship. At the same time, however, there is a high degree of insecurity attached to this stage. »