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Working Together for More Sustainability – Sustainable Development Academy at the University of Potsdam

From July 26 to August 6, 2021, students from all over the world will work on sustainability issues at the first Sustainable Development Academy at …
Supernova progenitor | Credit: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick

Teardrop star reveals hidden supernova doom

Astronomers have made the rare sighting of two stars spiralling to their doom by spotting the tell-tale signs of a teardrop-shaped star. New research …

THE Young University Ranking: University of Potsdam Once Again among Global Top 30

In this year’s THE ranking of the U50s – of universities that are less than 50 years old – the University of Potsdam was once again able to attain a …
Graduates of our international master's degree program CLEWS will be trained to become experts in the field of climate science research in order to address the consequences of global warming in a science-based manner with regard to research, politics, and the public. | Image: Vera Öztürk

CLEWS – International master's program on climate, earth, water and sustainability launches

The University of Potsdam offers for the first time this fall an interdisciplinary master's program that will directly address the most pressing …
Destroyed Tapovan Vishnugad hydroelectric plant after devastating debris flow of Feb 7, 2021 | Image Credit: Irfan Rashid, Department of Geoinformatics, University of Kashmir

Anatomy of a catastrophe – International study to February 2021 Uttarakhand disaster

The 2021 Chamoli disaster in the Indian Himalaya was triggered by an extraordinary rock and ice avalanche and debris flow, that destroyed …
Today a saline mudflat, the Chew Bahir Basin in southern Ethiopia once held an extensive paleo-lake during humid phases. Scientific deep drilling from the current playa surface produced a ~620,000-year long sedimentary record providing insights into the intense shifts of eastern Africa’s highly variable hydroclimate. | Image Credit: Annett Junginger

Newly discovered African ‘climate seesaw’ drove human evolution

A scientific consortium led by Dr Stefanie Kaboth-Bahr of the University of Potsdam has found that ancient El Niño-like weather patterns were the …

Double Success – Funding Extension for the DFG Collaborative Research Centers at the University of Potsdam

The German Research Foundation (DFG) positively reviewed the two Collaborative Research Centers at the University of Potsdam and approved their …
Left- and right-styled flowers of Wachendorfia paniculata. The blue arrows indicate the styles, the orange arrowheads the anthers. Two of the three anthers are bent to the other side than the style. | Credit: Michael Lenhard

Prof. Dr. Michael Lenhard receives Human Frontier Science Program Award

Together with an international team of scientists Prof. Dr. Michael Lenhard from the University of Potsdam was awarded a Research Grant of the …
The Orroral Valley Fire, southern Canberra, January 2020 | Credit: Nick-D (distributed under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license)

From fire to flash flood – scientists analyse consequences of devastating wildfires in Australia 2019/20

Scientists of the research training group “NatRiskChange” at the University of Potsdam could show that cascading effects can amplify the impacts of …
The only mounted skin of a female blue antelope can be found in the Natural History Museum Vienna. | Photo credit: NHM Vienna, Alice Schumacher

Blue and Lonesome – The rarity of blue antelopes in museum collections

Genetic research has shown that far fewer specimens of the blue antelope exist in museum collections than previously thought. An international team of …