Wind conditions influence water circulation and CO2 concentrations in the Southern Ocean, a study by geochemist Torben Struve and colleagues shows.…

An international team of scientists including Bernd Blasius has completed the longest known predator-prey time series. In the journal Nature, the…

A collection of Karl Jaspers’ letters – published on the fiftieth anniversary of the great thinker’s death – guides the reader through Jaspers’ life…

For decades, school absenteeism was a taboo topic in Germany. Now views have changed, many schools are facing the problem. Heinrich Ricking of the…

The University of Oldenburg receives funding as an Exist-Entrepreneur University from the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy…

Innovative technologies have the potential to make cycling safer, more attractive and more comfortable. Oldenburg business informatics researchers are…

In a new laboratory on the university’s Wechloy Campus, Oldenburg physicists are studying the movements of electrons inside atoms. The research…

Helping people with impaired hearing to enjoy music more is the long-term goal of Oldenburg hearing researcher Kai Siedenburg. His outstanding…

Around 100 experts from all over the world gathered at the "Marine Microbiota" symposium in Oldenburg at the end of August. Here, the host of the…

When does the whirring of fans sound pleasant? Two hearing researchers from Oldenburg are tracking the acoustic quality of ventilation.

The successful collaboration at the European Medical School Oldenburg-Groningen is going to be expanded. The cooperation agreement was signed…

By Christoph Lienau. We discuss the story behind our recent Nature Nano paper introducing plasmonic nanofocusing as a powerful technique for…

Scientists from Oldenburg and Bremen have shown that the associations of marine plankton in the present are markedly different from those of…

Urologists from the Klinikum Oldenburg and scientists from the Faculty of Medicine are conducting joint research in the field of prostate cancer –…

How did tobacco, tea, caffeine, sugar, chocolate and opium transform life in northern Europe's port cities from the 17th century onwards? Historians…

What can be done to fight multidrug-resistant germs in German hospitals? A Dutch-German team led by medical microbiologist Alexander Friedrichs is…

Participation of members of the public in a citizen science project helped uncover unusual current conditions in spring 2018.

The results of a medical procedure do not only depend on the doctors’ skills, but also on the organization of their working environment. Oldenburg…

They come from Asia, Africa and Latin America: 23 young higher education managers are currently participating in the advanced training programme…

Oldenburg geochemist Katharina Pahnke-May is studying the precise distribution of various metals dissolved in the waters of the world’s oceans. They…