Many areas in North Rhine-Westphalia are paved over by impervious surfaces such as roads, housing estates and industrial sites. While this is obvious from aerial photographs, it is difficult to ...

During heavy rainfall, impervious surfaces quickly become a problem, especially in cities. If the water cannot seep away, streets can quickly turn into rivers. Many areas in North Rhine-Westphalia are ...

No chance of escape: The participant’s pupil diameter is filmed using a camera. They, too, reveal something about the learned fear. Contrary to popular opinion, stress can have a positive effect on ...

The birds are an integral part of research. They provide many insights into how learning and memory work. They are among the most important employees in the Department of Biopsychology at Ruhr ...

The accomplished researchers from universities around the world will spend the next six months working on collaborative projects with their tandem partners from the University Alliance Ruhr. Eight ...

In seinem Grußwort zum Semesterstart ermutigt Rektor Martin Paul alle Studierenden und Mitarbeitenden, sich aktiv an sachlichen und respektvollen Diskussionen zu beteiligen. In seiner Videobotschaft ...

Michael Müller wird für die Entwicklung der weltweit leistungsstärksten ultraschnellen Faserlaser ausgezeichnet. Der Bochumer Laserforscher Dr. Michael Müller ist der erste Preisträger des mit 20.000 ...

Über 4.000 Erstsemester beginnen am 7. Oktober 2024 ihr Studium an der Ruhr-Universität, die Gesamtstudierendenzahl ist auf einem ähnlichen Niveau wie im Vorjahr. Rektor Prof. Dr. Martin Paul begrüßt ...

Nine of the authors are members of the Research Training Group “Monoaminergic Networks & Disease”, MoNN&Di”, funded by the German Research Foundation (from left: Beyza Bozkurt, Dirk Jancke, Ida Siveke ...

People who reduce their screen time on by merely one hour a day improve both their well-being and their motivation at work. On average, we spend three and a quarter hours a day looking at our phones.

It takes a lot of helpers to build up the protein complexes required for photosynthesis and to constantly repair them in strong light. Photosynthesis takes place before our eyes every day in every ...

Its genes give it a life expectancy of around 400 years: The Greenland shark is the longest-lived vertebrate known in the world. An international research team has decoded the genome of the ...