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Researchers target the skin of humpback whales and Magellanic penguins.

Stowaways – What can microorganisms on the skin of whales or penguins reveal about environmental changes?

Humpback whales are among the most impressive animals on earth, with an average length of 13 meters and weighing up to 30 tons. Evolutionary biologist …
Prof. Karoline Wiesner

33 Questions to Prof. Dr. Karoline Wiesner

What connects ant colonies and the Internet, financial markets and the human brain? They are complex systems – a comparatively new field of research, …

Landslides increasingly threaten the world’s urban poor

In a comment recently published in “Nature”, Dr. Ugur Öztürk and his colleagues at the University of Potsdam, the University of Bristol and the …
Bat with radio transmitter

Networking for food: Bats communicate and work together for more efficient foraging

Social hunting strategies are already well documented in many animal species when prey is distributed in an unpredictable way across the landscape. In …
Prof. Peter van der Beek researches the driving forces behind mountain formation

Across Mountains and Valleys – Prof. Peter van der Beek researches the driving forces behind mountain formation

Geoscientist Peter van der Beek is a specialist in thermochronology. With this method, he looks far back into the history of mountain ranges and …
Coastal morphology of the seismically active area of Pichilemu (Chile)

Blind faults - New findings on earthquake hazards in coastal regions

For decades, earthquake researchers have been dealing with so-called blind faults. These are often seismically active and very dangerous structures in …
Numerical-relativity simulation of the binary neutron star coalescence and merger which resulted in the detected gravitational wave event GW190425.

Hypermodels help understand gravitational waves

A new approach to analyze binary neutron star mergers, developed by Dr. Gregory Ashton (University of London) and Prof. Dr. Tim Dietrich (Potsdam …
DNA-Sequenzierung des Grauwolfs

Dog ancestry can be traced to two separate wolf populations

An international group of geneticists and archaeologists with participation of the University of Potsdam have found that the ancestry of dogs can be …
Neckargmünd under water

When Heavy Rainfall Turns into Flash Floods – Hydrology research group examines the hazards of flash floods for cities

In July 2021, there were devastating floods caused by heavy rainfall with 180 deaths and immense economic damages in Rhineland-Palatine and …
Künstlerische Darstellung einer numerisch-relativistischen Simulation der Verschmelzung zweier Neutronensterne mit einem Bild der bei einer Goldionen-Kollision entstandenen Teilchen.

New insights into neutron stars matter

For the first time, an international research team, including Prof. Dr. Tim Dietrich (Potsdam University/Max Planck Institute for Gravitational …