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The Australian Outback. Picture: Julia Gebhardt/Pixelio

Borders of the Unknown – Ludwig Leichhardt from Brandenburg on Expeditions through Australia

Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt was born in 1813 in Trebatsch, Brandenburg. At the age of 35, he disappeared during an expedition through the hot …
Picture: Medico International

When the Flood Comes – Catherine Abon Develops a Flood Early Warning System for the Philippines

With its 7000 islands, the Philippines is the world’s fifth largest island country – and a holiday paradise. Lying at the border of the Philippine and …
Professor Torsten Dahm. Picture: Thomas Roese

The Shaking on the Ground – Prof. Torsten Dahm Investigates Earth with Geophysical Methods

A deadly 8.2-magnitude earthquake devastated the Chilean northwest coast in early April 2014. It claimed many lives. The risk of aftershocks was very …
Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin. Picture: Karla Fritze

Literature As Nourishment – Research on a New Spatial Understanding of the Holocaust

Trauma and space – literary scholar and philosopher Judith Kasper brings these two terms together in a research project funded by the DFG about the …
Picture: Karla Fritze

Grassfielder’s Guide to the English Language – Working on a Dictionary of West African English

English is an international language; in most countries, you can get by with “world English”. However, in many regions of the world, English is no …

Rückenschmerz vorbeugen – Herbsttreffen des Forschungsverbundes medizinische Rehabilitation

Diagnose, Therapie und Prävention von Rückenbeschwerden stehen im Fokus des diesjährigen Herbsttreffens des Forschungsverbundes medizinische …
Picture: Karla Fritze

Learning How to Lose Weight

Psychologists in Potsdam have developed a training program for obese young people

They’ve just grown out of children’s shoes and are already too fat. Unfortunately this no longer a rare situation. Pathological obesity at an early …

Richard III. – Fall nach 529 Jahren gelöst – Potsdamer Biologe an Veröffentlichung in Nature Communications beteiligt

Ein internationales Forscherteam, unter anderem mit Prof. Dr. Michael Hofreiter von der Universität Potsdam, hat das 2012 unter einem Parkplatz in der …
Katalin Tamási and Carolin Jekel in BabyLab. Picture: Thomas Hoelzel

Look Me in the Eye!

What the Pupil Tells Us about Language Acquisition

At the IDEALAB doctoral program, an international group of young academics study the relationship between language and brain. They conduct research on …
Pic.: Hannelore Gensel

Reading

Pleasure for Some, Torment for Others

 

For the eyes, reading is a fine motor skill, jumping in quick jerks from one word to the next in just fractions of a second. Depending on one’s …