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Klaus Tschira Foundation honors young researchers with the KlarText Prize 2025

By | August 8, 2025
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Credits: Annette Mück, KTS

The award winners are Rebecka Molitor (Biology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf), Hanna Trzesniowski (Chemistry, Technical University of Berlin), Steffen Knoblauch (Geosciences, University of Heidelberg), Letitia Parcalabescu (Computer Science, University of Heidelberg), Christin Nyhoegen (Mathematics, Kiel University), Annika Konrad (Neurosciences, Technical University of Dresden), and Felix Glang (Physics, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen). The prize for the best infographic goes to Katharina Bensing (Technical University of Darmstadt). Almost 200… Read more »

Prize for sustainable chemistry goes to electrolysis and bioplastics researchers

By | May 22
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Credits: Kindel Media, pexels

Two sustainability researchers are being honored by the German Chemical Society (GDCh) for their work. Professor Dr. Siegfried R. Waldvogel, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Mülheim an der Ruhr, will receive the Wöhler Prize for Sustainable Chemistry for his outstanding and pioneering achievements in the field of electrosynthesis. Dr. Daniel Eggerichs will receive the Bioconversion Prize for his dissertation at Ruhr University Bochum… Read more »

Geneticist Wolfgang Nellen awarded the Treviranus Medal

By | May 14
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Credits: VBIO

The Association for Biology, Biosciences and Biomedicine in Germany (VBIO e. V.) is honoring geneticist Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Nellen from Kassel with its highest award, the Treviranus Medal. The VBIO is thus recognizing the recipient's extraordinary contributions to science and science communication. Nellen sees himself as a "practice-oriented advocate for the life sciences" and, despite being retired, continues to give lectures and... Read more »

Mystery solved: How the brain links visual stimuli such as color and movement

By | May 12
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Credits: cottonbro studio, pexels

Max Arwed Crayen has been awarded the 2024 doctoral prize of the German Primate Center (DPZ) – Leibniz Institute for Primate Research. His doctoral thesis, which investigates how the brain links visual stimuli such as color and movement – ​​and why this sometimes leads to perceptual illusions – was recognized. In his doctoral research, conducted in the Cognitive Neuroscience Department at the DPZ, Crayen combined psychological experiments… Read more »

Soil bacteria as new antibiotics: Saarland researcher receives Tu Youyou Prize

By | May 2
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Credits: Dietze, HIPS

Every two years, the MDPI Sustainability Foundation awards the Tu Youyou Award for outstanding achievements in the fields of natural product and medicinal chemistry. This year, Rolf Müller is one of two researchers to receive the award for his work on the development of new antibiotics based on microbial natural products. The prize was established in 2016 in honor of the Chinese Nobel laureate Tu Youyou and… Read more »

Thousands of people vote for the most blatant environmental lie of the year

By | April 9, 2025
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Credits: Schwerdhoefer, pixabay

The housing company Vonovia advertised a natural gas tariff in its app for tenants, claiming it was powered by "100 percent renewable energy." According to the German Environmental Aid Association (DUH), this is blatant greenwashing, as natural gas is and remains a climate-damaging fossil fuel. Over 10.000 people agreed and voted online for Vonovia to receive the Golden… Read more »

Two science prizes for a book about a toxic ship that remained undisturbed for years

By | March 24, 2025
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Credits: Tom Fisk, pexels

"The Toxic Ship – The Voyage of the Khian Sea and the Global Waste Trade" is a book by Prof. Dr. Simone M. Müller of the University of Augsburg that deals with the global waste trade and its consequences. The work traces the history of the ship Khian Sea and its years of undisturbed voyage across the world's oceans, which serves as an exemplary case… Read more »

International university awards prize for creative thesis

By | March 12, 2025
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For the first time this year, the IU Innovation Prize will be awarded, an award honoring groundbreaking ideas for the housing and real estate industry. The prize is initiated by IU International University, Germany's largest university with over 130.000 students, in cooperation with the meravis real estate group, which is providing the prize money totaling €5.000. Students from all universities are invited to submit their innovative theses… Read more »

DECHEMA Prizes for Natural Research 2025 go to Braunschweig and Zurich

By | March 4, 2025
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Credits: Karl Gademann, Institute of Chemistry at UZH

Dr. Anton Möllerke from the Institute of Organic Chemistry at TU Braunschweig and Prof. Dr. Nina Hartrampf from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Zurich were awarded the Doctoral Prize for Natural Product Research and the Young Scientist Prize for Natural Product Research by the DECHEMA Society for Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology for their outstanding scientific achievements. Doctoral Prize for Natural Product Research: Dr. Anton Möllerke from the Institute of Organic Chemistry… Read more »

Commitment to democracy, the environment and animal welfare: Professor receives Dr. Leopold Lucas Prize

By | February 19, 2025
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French professor Corine Pelluchon will be awarded the Dr. Leopold Lucas Prize for her contributions to political philosophy and her commitment to democracy, the environment, and animal welfare. The €50.000 prize is awarded by the Protestant Theological Faculty of the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen in memory of the Jewish scholar Leopold Lucas. The public award ceremony will take place on Tuesday, May 13… Read more »