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University of Cologne Geoscientists Track Down the Asteroid That Sealed the Fate of the Dinosaurs

The asteroid that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago probably came from the outer solar system.

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University of Cologne Researchers Improve Lung Cancer Diagnosis With AI

New AI-based digital platform enables extremely fast and accurate analysis of tissue sections from lung cancer patients.

Panel discussion at the German Historical Institute Washington

Democracy in Crisis? Science and Political Decision-making during the Covid-19 Pandemic

Join the GHI Washington and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina for an opportunity to explore emerging narratives and historical assessments of a health crisis unprecedented in scope and global impact.

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UoC Astronomers and Astrophysicists Discover High-Speed Young Stars Near Milky Way’s Black Hole

Young stellar objects travel around the black hole in the center of our galaxy at a speed of over a thousand kilometers per second.

News from New York University

Urban Future Forum 2024: Equity in Piloting Climate Solutions

In the spring of 2023, the ​Urban Future Lab at NYU Tandon School of Engineering was awarded a grant from IN2 (the Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator, co-founded and co-administered by NREL) to host an event bringing together community-based organizations (CBOs) focusing on climate and/or workforce, startups, investors, and channel to market partners. With this grant, they hosted their first ever Urban Future Forum on June 25, 2024, as an attempt to forge meaningful connections and enhance transparent communication between innovators and communities prior to deployment.

News from the University Alliance Ruhr

UA Ruhr Celebrates 20 Years with the Launch of the Future’s Fellowship Program: A New Era of Research Collaboration

Discover how the UA Ruhr‘s newly launched Future’s Fellowship Program is set to strongly impact our international research collaborations, with key insights from the Presidents’ Roundtable on leveraging science and academia to tackle global challenges.

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University of Cologne holds the Top Position in Germany with a Total of 16 CRCs as the Managing University

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved a new Collaborative Research Centre in the field of mRNA research and extended the funding of four existing CRCs. The University of Cologne holds the top position in Germany.