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

With higher-level clouds, the warming effect typically predominates due to the interaction with thermal radiation, whereas with low-level clouds the cooling effect dominates due to the reflection of sunlight.

Rapid surge in global warming mainly due to reduced planetary albedo

In 2023, the global mean temperature reached a new high of almost 1.5 degrees Celsius compared to the preindustrial level. Seeking to identify the causes of this sudden rise has proven a challenge for researchers. After all, factoring in the effects of anthropogenic influences like the weather phenomenon El Niño and natural events, can account for a major portion of the warming. But doing so still leaves a gap of roughly 0.2 degrees Celsius, which has never been satisfactorily explained. In the journal Science, a team led by the AWI puts forward a possible explanation for the rise in global mean temperature: our planet has become less reflective because certain types of clouds have declined.

Dec 5, 2024, 9:00:00 PM

Getting Existing Buildings Ready for the Future

A universal modular construction system: In the BAU-DNS flagship project, seven Fraunhofer institutes are developing innovative methods for the sustainable, modular and circular refurbishment of existing buildings, aimed at industry and small and medium-sized enterprises. They will be presenting recent findings and solutions at the BAU 2025 trade show in Munich from January 13 to 17.

Dec 5, 2024, 2:22:51 PM

Parameter inference workflow and microbiome data properties.

New Method for Analyzing Microbiome Interactions

Microbial communities, such as those found in the gut microbiome or other body regions, are crucial for the health and development of hosts. However, understanding how these microbes interact with each other – whether they compete, cooperate, or influence each other indirectly – has been difficult to decipher. A new method now sheds more light on this issue: an innovative stochastic approach that allows for more precise analysis of interactions between microbes.

Dec 5, 2024, 1:04:01 PM

Community-Driven Mini-grids in Nigeria: Research project shows ways to sustainably electrify rural regions

In the project ‘Communities of Practice Nigeria’ (CP Nigeria), researchers from Reiner Lemoine Institute (RLI), together with experts from partner organizations, have developed results for the promotion of clean and sustainable energy supply in Nigeria. Among other things, they have identified around 660 rural communities in the country as ideal for off-grid electrification. The introduction of mini-grids could reduce annual CO2 emissions in these regions by up to 188,000 tons.

Dec 5, 2024, 11:49:09 AM

MCC: Stopping climate change protects human health – a major project helps to pool the knowledge

The moral obligation to protect people around the world against the climate crisis as best as we can motivates an unprecedented research project: “DESTINY” is a high-profile international research consortium with partners in Europe, Africa and Australia, developing new tools powered by artificial intelligence (AI) to sift through and summarise the vast research literature. The project is led by researchers from the Berlin-based climate research institute MCC (Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change).

Dec 5, 2024, 11:15:51 AM