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Research news (2025)

4 February 2025|Press release

Watching Videos of People with Cold Symptoms Activates Brain Regions and Triggers Immune Response

A woman lying in bed with cold symptoms

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People watching videos of sneezing or sick people show increased activity at the junction of brain regions and the immune system that react to...
28 January 2025|Research

How Botanists Help Identify Origins of Victims of the Slave Trade

A map of strontium isotope ratios in Africa

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From the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, more than 12.5 million Africans were trafficked to the New World as part of the transatlantic slave...
24 January 2025|Press release

Eminem, Jay-Z, LL Cool J, or Nas—it is often the star rappers who claim sovereignty over the sound of a track through their voice and lyrics. The subject literature reveals contradictory views about who really determines the sound of a music production. In a study published in the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, a team of musicologists led by Dr. Tim Ziemer from the University of Hamburg has now been able to prove that it is clearly the producers.

Dr. Tim Ziemer of the Institute of Systematic Musicology

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Eminem, Jay-Z, LL Cool J, or Nas—it is often the star rappers who claim sovereignty over the sound of a track through their voice and lyrics. The...
22 January 2025|Research

Success: 11 University of Hamburg Projects Get State Research Funding

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From smart cities and history teaching to AI-based infection and autoimmune research: 16 research projects from a wide range of disciplines were...
20 January 2025|Research

Doing the Research: How Can School Teaching Effectively Provide Informatics Knowledge?

A teacher explains to pupils on their laptop the functionality of an application

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From 1 August 2025, informatics will be a required subject in all Hamburg secondary schools. Under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Sandra Schulz at the...
15 January 2025|Press release

Single-Celled Organisms with Super Powers: tiny organisms buffer fertilizers in the world’s oceans

Photo foraminifera

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“Foraminifera” are found in all of the world’s oceans. Now, an international study headed by the University of Hamburg has shown that these tiny...
13 January 2025|Research

The Most Poisonous Spider in the World includes 3 Different Species

Stephanie Frances Loria, Dr. Danilo Harms, and Svea-Celina Frank

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The Sydney funnel web spider is one of the most poisonous spiders in the world. One international research team, which includes the Leibniz Institute...
7 January 2025|Press release

Wir wollen’s wissen— The University Visits Schools

High school students listening to a researcher

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In the interactive teaching format Wir wollen’s wissen, University of Hamburg researchers trade the lecture hall for the classroom and present their...