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Europe meets in Bielefeld
The NEOLAiA Focus Academy celebrated its premiere at Bielefeld University, bringing together students from across Europe to explore digital transformation and entrepreneurship.
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Robust Decisions in Natural and Artificial Intelligence
People, animals and AI make decisions every day under conditions of uncertainty. A new international research group at ZiF Bielefeld is investigating robust decision-making strategies for this purpose. For the first time in a workshop from 8 to 19 December.
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Make foams recyclable via break points
Chemists at Bielefeld University receive funding to apply research on recyclable plastics.
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What Our Meadows Reveal About the Future
Meadows are quietly losing their diversity – often before we even notice. A research team led by Prof. Dr Lena Neuenkamp has now demonstrated in Nature Ecology & Evolution that spatial data can predict changes in species diversity over time with astonishing accuracy.
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Thinking Takes Energy
A new study shows how our brain metabolism sets the limits of thinking. Researchers explain why cognitive models remain incomplete without considering biological resources.
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Extreme-matter research secures renewal
The German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding the transregional Collaborative Research Centre (CRC/TRR) 211 ‘Strong-Interaction Matter under Extreme Conditions’ for another 3.5 years. The DFG announced the decision today (21 […]
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Cells Pull the Emergency Brake When Oxygen Runs Low
When cells face a lack of oxygen, they switch to energy-saving mode:
A team at Bielefeld University shows how they deliberately slow down their secretory transport pathway to do so.
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Our Solar System Is Moving Faster Than Expected
Our solar system is racing through space faster than current models predict – as shown by a new study from Bielefeld University. The surprising findings challenge fundamental assumptions of cosmology.
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Public Opinion Divided on Military Service
Conflict Monitor: Younger People Favor Voluntarism, Older Generations Call for Compulsory Service.
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Polio Vaccination Remains Essential
A new study shows: The polio vaccine remains essential. Prof. Dr. Oliver Razum emphasizes: Eradication is unlikely, vaccination protection remains indispensable.
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Clinical Guidelines as a lever for more equitable healthcare
How can clinical guidelines be designed to enable equitable and inclusive healthcare – and at the same time promote research and innovation? Professor Dr Sabine Oertelt-Prigione and her colleagues discuss these questions in their contribution to the current special edition of the British Medical Journal.
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Research Team Explores Inclusion at Conferences
A research team from Bielefeld University investigates how inclusive academic conferences really are and offers concrete recommendations to promote participation and diversity.
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City lizards turn out to be surprisingly social
Narrow walls, few hideouts: in cities, wall lizards build more social ties and form stable bonds, unlike their more solitary counterparts in natural habitats.
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Partnerships boost life satisfaction
Life satisfaction rises significantly when people move from living alone into a committed relationship and start living with a partner. This is shown by a new study from Bielefeld University and the University of Greifswald and the University of Warwick.
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Humans and Machines Learn Differently
Bielefeld researchers analyze in “Nature Machine Intelligence” how humans and AI systems learn new things and what this means for the future of Artificial Intelligence.
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Robot Nao as an Attentive Explainer
How can a robot best support us linguistically in solving tasks? Researchers from TRR 318 Constructing Explainability have investigated this question.
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How Cells Build Complex Structures as a Team
How does the collective interaction of many individual cells create a perfectly formed organism? This question is the focus of a new study.
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How to Understand Complex Systems
An international research group on the theory of random matrices is being launched at the ZiF in Bielefeld. It is investigating how new methods can be used to better understand complex systems ranging from ecology to AI.
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Your morning coffee really does make you happier
Researchers from Bielefeld University and the University of Warwick tracked young adults’ behaviour and mood in everyday life for four weeks.
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Strategic links with Asia strengthened
The Rector of the University Professor Dr Angelika Epple and Professor Dr Michaela Vogt, Vice Rector for International Affairs, Diversity and Society, visiting partner institutions in China and Japan.
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Terahertz light controls atomically thin semiconductors
A research team from Bielefeld and Dresden uses pulses of terahertz light
to control nanomaterials – opening up new possibilities for ultrafast
nanoelectronics.
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‘We are the ones who reflect on science’
The new Institute for Studies of Science (ISoS) helps researchers to critically scrutinise their academic work.
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‘We are still inside history’
Ukrainian poet and scholar Dr Ostap Slyvynsky is a visiting researcher at the university. 3 questions for the Vice President of PEN Ukraine.
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Counting with uncertainties
The theory of imprecise probabilities is the focus of ISIPTA 2025 at the Bielefeld ZiF.
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