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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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Focusing on the individual: how diversity advances research
What makes individuals unique—and why is that important? The new focus area InChangE delivers insights.
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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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New paths in mathematics
The ESyMath focus area aims to bring together different areas of mathematics and related sciences in order to exploit and further develop synergies.
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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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How humans and AI work as a team
How can cooperation succeed between humans and AI? The FAITH focus area at Bielefeld University is researching the hybrid teamwork of tomorrow.
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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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Developing explanations together
After four years of intensive research, the Transregional Collaborative Research Centre 318 “Constructing Explainability” takes stock. In this interview, the two spokespersons share key insights.
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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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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 develop models to improve decision-making”
CUDE researchers explore how to make better decisions in uncertain times.
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Making Better, More Explainable Medical Diagnoses with AI
Can artificial intelligence work side by side with doctors to help them make better diagnoses? A research team at Bielefeld University is dedicated to answering this question.
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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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Unexpected Animal Partnership Discovered in the Amazon
Researchers from Bielefeld University documented a puzzling relationship between ocelots and opossums in the rainforest for the first time – potentially an unknown cooperation between these two species.
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Looking at Explanations of AI in Context
How can explanations of artificially intelligent systems be made comprehensible, and what role does context play in this? These questions are the focus of the 3rd TRR 318 conference ‘Contextualising Explanations’, which will take place on 17 and 18 June in Bielefeld.
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Can football fever be measured?
Researchers at the university are analyzing the pulse of Arminia Bielefeld fans during the DFB Cup final in Berlin. The study, conducted in cooperation with the Bielefeld Wissenswerkstadt, uses smartwatches to measure heart rate and stress levels—both before and during the match.
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How reliable are behavioural tests with insects?
Research team from Bielefeld, Münster and Jena finds evidence that behavioural experiments with insects are also affected by the ‘reproducibility crisis’.
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“School should not be a crime scene, but a place of protection”
Dr Marlene Kowalski is the Visiting Gender Professor at the Faculty of Educational Science.
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