Over the next 3 years, Hamburg authorities will conduct drills to optimally prepare for biohazard emergencies. This is to improve cooperation and be transferable to other regions.

Eminem, Jay-Z, LL Cool J, or Nas-it is often the star rappers who claim sovereignty over the sound of a track through their voice and lyrics. The subject literature reveals contradictory views about who really determines the sound of a music production. In a study published in the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, a team of musicologists led by Tim Ziemer from the University of Hamburg has now been able to prove that it is clearly the producers.

People watching videos of sneezing or sick people show increased activity at the junction of brain regions and the immune system that react to potential dangers.

The German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding a new research group at the University of Hamburg. From 1 April 2025, a team led Peter Siemund at the Faculty of Humanities will explore how the impact of English has been changing in various multilingual regions of the world-with a particular focus on local differences and influences.

The collaborative project Radicalization Monitoring System and Transfer Platform (Monitoringsystem und Transferplattform Radikalisierung, MOTRA), which includes 2 research groups from Hamburg, is entering its second funding phase. After successfully completing the first funding phase (2019 to 2024), the project will receive further funding from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community until March 2028.

On 2 February 2025, in the midst of the Arctic winter, the temperature at the North Pole was a tad over freezing.

So-called foraminifera are found in all the world's oceans. Now, an international study led by the University of Hamburg has shown that foraminifera are found in all the world's oceans: The mostly shell-bearing microorganisms absorb phosphate from the water to an unprecedented extent, which pollutes the oceans. The study has been published in the scientific journal "Nature".

Particulate matter and microplastics are much-discussed risks to the environment and health. A new study by the Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability at the University of Hamburg and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon has now investigated the role of tire and brake wear in the formation of urban particulate matter for the first time. The result: this abrasion alone causes 12 percent of particulate matter in Hamburg - and is the largest source of microplastics in the environment.