Default options facilitate faster carbon offsetting in air travel Study with participation of University of Cologne economist finds that many air travellers more readily choose faster,… Read more
How protists crack the walls of algae The unicellular protist Orciraptor agilis produces a number of partly novel enzymes and binding proteins while… Read more
New poll: framing influences public opinion on energy embargo Mixed opinion on a full embargo on Russian energy: a good half of Germans in favour / Representative survey with 3251… Read more
Sociologist Eva Illouz is Albertus Magnus Professor 2022 The sociologist will be a guest in Cologne from June 29 to 30 and will give two lectures and a public seminar Read more
Furthering academic knowledge in times of war: Cologne/Bonn Academy in Exile founded The Universities of Cologne and Bonn are collaborating to support researchers facing the war in Ukraine or persecution… Read more
More equal online: study reveals people’s idealized self-representation on the internet Differences among people are less pronounced online than offline / users particularly tend to idealize their… Read more
University wins funding for a new Collaborative Research Centre in plant sciences Around 10 million euros over four years for research into the genetic foundations and key mechanisms with which plants… Read more
Study explores concentrations of microplastics in the Rhine floodplains near Langel in Cologne Microplastics accumulate in the Rhine meadows at Langel-Merkenich / topography and flooding determine local… Read more
How faulty mRNA is detected and destroyed Two similar proteins can stand in for each other in the quality control mechanism of defective mRNA. This has redefined… Read more
Quantum one-way street in topological insulator nanowires Very thin wires made of a topological insulator could enable highly stable qubits, the building blocks of future quantum… Read more