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Research in Germany

Germany is a top destination for PhD students, postdocs, and senior scientists. The website "Research in Germany" helps you to find your way to Germany, to seek for PhD positions, research jobs or funding opportunities. It describes the German research landscape and helps you plan your career and life in Germany. Welcome to Germany - the Land of Ideas!

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There are many good reasons for doing research in Germany. It is one of the most innovative, stable and well endowed research nations and its universities and research institutions are among the best in the world. Values like freedom and diversity as well as social and ecological responsibility are considered important to ensure knowledge gain and societal progress.

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Here you will find a selection of the latest R&D news from German universities, non-university research institutes and industrial research facilities.

More than one million bars can be created between two diamond tips, and some materials can be synthesized to become superconducting at relatively high temperatures.

Nature of Superconductivity in Hydrogen-Rich Compounds

High-pressure electron tunneling spectroscopy reveals a superconducting gap in H₃S and D₃S.

Apr 23, 2025, 8:50:47 PM

How DNA Self-Organizes in the Early Embryo

An international research team led by Helmholtz Munich has, for the first time, provided a detailed insight into how the spatial organization of genetic material is established in the cell nucleus of early embryos within the first hours after fertilization. Surprisingly, embryos demonstrate a high degree of flexibility in responding to disruptions in this process. The study, now published in Cell, reveals that no single master regulator controls this nuclear organization. Instead, multiple redundant mechanisms ensure a robust and adaptable nuclear architecture, allowing embryos to correct errors in the initial organization of their nucleus.

Apr 23, 2025, 7:00:00 PM

The change in height of the different GPS stations (red = rising; blue = sinking). The rise was particularly pronounced in the drought between 2015 and 2019.

Climate change is lifting South Africa out of the ocean

South Africa is slowly lifting out of the water – by up to two millimeters per year depending on the region. It had been assumed up to now that this phenomenon was due to mantle flow in the Earth’s crust. However, a study carried out by the University of Bonn now provides another explanation: Droughts and the associated water loss are the main reason for this land uplift. The results have now been published in the “Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth.”

Apr 23, 2025, 5:28:09 PM

Early Life Stress Can Build Resilience in Females

Early life stress (ELS) can have surprising benefits for female mice, leading to improved emotional regulation and cognitive function. A groundbreaking study identifies a critical protein, FKBP51, as playing a key role in this adaptive process. The uncovering of sex-specific mechanisms through which ELS can build resilience helps researchers to understand the development of psychiatric disorders and identify potential therapeutic targets.

Apr 23, 2025, 5:15:00 PM

Inhibition of an enzyme that promotes inflammation may reduce cardiovascular risk in obese people

A research team has discovered that the enzyme myeloperoxidase (MPO) plays an important role in vascular health in obese people / publication in Cell Reports Medicine

Apr 23, 2025, 3:57:06 PM

Elephant Instead of Wild Boar? What Could Have Been in Europe

Even under today’s climatic conditions, the long-extinct straight-tusked elephant could still live in Europe. This is the conclusion of a recent study. For this finding, the Sport Ecology research group at the University of Bayreuth combined fossil finds with reconstructions of past climates. The researchers present their findings in the journal Frontiers of Biogeography.

Apr 23, 2025, 1:27:03 PM