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04.03.2026

Did the first human ancestor originate in the Balkans? – New fossil shows evidence of bipedalism

An international team, including the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research and the University of…

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26.02.2026

How oxygen enriched the Earth's atmosphere 2.5 billion years ago

University of Tübingen researchers investigate how O2-producing cyanobacteria survived toxic iron…

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25.02.2026

Human activity is influencing the behavior of Germany’s wildcats

Tübingen’s Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment team used existing samples,…

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24.02.2026

AI develops easily understandable solutions for unusual experiments in quantum physics

Researchers once struggled to understand unconventional solutions developed by artificial…

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10.02.2026

What’s in a name?

University of Tübingen-led team discovers parallels in the information structure of naming systems,…

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03.02.2026

Māori ancestor goes home

Captain James Cook removed the ancestral portrait 250 years ago; University of Tübingen returns ‘Pou…

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02.02.2026

Valuable new information about life in Europe’s Stone Age from the Vogelherd Cave

Tübingen Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology Prize for Benjamin Schürch

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26.01.2026

Earliest evidence of wooden tools used by humans

International research team from Germany, the UK and Greece finds evidence of wooden tool use in…

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