Department of Geosciences

Department of Geosciences

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More than

30

Professorships

More than

12

Million €/a External Funding

In total

18

Study Programs

More than

300

Graduates per Year

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A researcher demonstrates the tasks the participants were asked to perform during the experiment: on the left, cracking nuts and on the right, cutting leather using stone tools.

19.11.2024

How brain evolution is linked to the use of tools

Research team from the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the…

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Soils naturally contain small amounts of metals such as cadmium. These could be mobilized to a greater extent in the future by a changing climate, thereby entering the human food chain via crop cultivation.

30.10.2024

The changing climate could increase mobility of toxic metals in soils

University of Tübingen and Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) team investigates the…

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17.10.2024

Effects of chemical mixtures: Neurotoxic effects add up

Study of the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research and University of Tübingen demonstrates for…

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