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Searching for the right word | Photo: Kaya Neutzer

About Searching and Finding Words – A psycholinguistic experiment

Authors are rich people. Their wealth lies in the words they have collected over the course of their lives: heard from mum and dad, heard in stories, …
Prof. Dr. Fabian Schuppert | Photo: Tobias Hopfgarten

Politics and Ethics go Hand in Hand – Fabian Schuppert considers political theory a very practical matter

Mountains or Sea? Fabian Schuppert should decide – “Mountains”. Car or Bike? He is sitting in his office in Griebnitzsee, which he moved into only a …

Alternative Milk from Peas – Start-up VlyFoods believes in nutritional value and environmental protection

Oat, rice, soy or almond milk - plant-based alternatives to classic cow’s milk are trendy and in increasing demand. Nicolas Hartmann, Niklas Katter, …
Hot summers are no longer an exception in Potsdam. | Photo: AdobeStock / Katja Xenikis

Keeping Cool During a Heat Wave – How cities can better cope with climate change

Heat waves, thunderstorms, hail, and heavy rainfall - extreme weather events are becoming increasingly common. Such events pose an enormous challenge …

Open to the World and Intercultural - DAAD Supports Internationalization of Teacher Training

Teacher training at the University of Potsdam will become more international. Thanks to funding from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in …
Prof. Dr. Petra Warschburger | Photo: Thomas Roese

Healing Spirit – Psychologist Prof. Petra Warschburger investigates what helps chronically ill children and adolescents cope with psychosocial stress

Having diabetes already as a child - and also being depressed? Teenagers with juvenile arthritis who become aggressive? For some children and …
Artist‘s view of heat transport in a trilayer metal composite material. | Image credit: Felix Stete/Jan Pudell

Hot Electrons – a very special form of heat transport in metals

When heating a platinum layer on nanometer scales, heat can be transferred by hot electrons through a copper layer into a nickel layer without …
White storks in the field | Photo: Guillermo Fandos-Guzman

Flexible individuals - Seasonal climatic niche tracking in White Storks only emerges at population level

Individual migratory birds rather track short-term weather conditions, while a population adapts its migratory movements seasonally to both weather …
George Kwesiga at the lab | Photo: Tobias Hopfgarten

The mediacal treasure trove of nature – Chemists from Potsdam and their African colleagues are researching new active substances from plants

Nature provides an abundance of medically effective substances. Only a fraction of them is known so far. Especially in poorer countries, where very …
Those who know more about risks are often better able to deal with them. | Photo: AdobeStock / zhukovvvlad

Understanding and Deciding – The Harding Center for Risk Literacy now researches in Potsdam

What are the risks of a diagnosis using artificial intelligence, of health information websites or of health apps? The Harding Center for Risk …