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The international research campaign COMPEX (Clouds over complex environment) is kicking off with measurement flights over the Arctic and will investigate the properties of clouds over sea ice that cannot be detected by satellites.

In light of Russia's war in Ukraine, a majority of the German population supports strengthening national defence capability, including higher defence spending.

Professor Torsten Schöneberg, Professor of Molecular Biochemistry at Leipzig University, and his team at the Rudolf Schönheimer Institute of Biochemistry are investigating how genes, hormones and the environment regulate metabolism. His research shows why our bodies are often overwhelmed by modern diets and lifestyles - and how interdisciplinary, cutting-edge research can open up new ways of preventing and treating disease.

Antje Körner holds a professorship in metabolism research at Leipzig University's Faculty of Medicine.

Until now, researchers assumed that schizophrenia, anxiety disorders or depression arise from an interplay of many different factors, including genetic ones.

Historian Dr Ismay Milford has been admitted to the prestigious Emmy Noether Programme of the German Research Foundation (DFG).

The WIVERN research project has been selected for the European Space Agency's (ESA) eleventh Earth Explorer satellite mission.

News from Last year, Dr. Alexander Leistner, a sociologist at the University of Leipzig, launched the unusual project "Überlandschreiberinnen - Ways across the Country".

New Institute for Interprofessional Simulation in Medicine founded "Learning together, from each other, about each other" is the motto of the newly founded Institute for Interprofessional Simulation in Medicine at Leipzig University.

in the Amazon region and in Southeast Asia, reduced rainfall, deforestation and fires are already leading to a deterioration in forest quality and changes in ecosystems," says Alexandra Nora Müllner-Riehl from the Institute of Biology at Leipzig University.

The far south of New Zealand (Aotearoa) offers a globally unique setting for cloud research: it is among the most pristine, clean and yet accessible regions on Earth.

Message from When it comes to clouds, the region in the far south of New Zealand (Aotearoa) is unique in the world: it is one of the most untouched, cleanest and yet accessible regions in the world.

People with the eating disorder ARFID severely restrict their food intake in terms of quantity or variety - this leads to physical and psychological impairments.

News from Milena Barp describes her research work in Research Training Group (RTG) 2721 at Leipzig University as "very fruitful".

News from A new junior research group headed by Anna Shadrova started work at the Herder Institute at Leipzig University on July 1, 2025.

Message from The German Federal Cartel Office has no fundamental objections to the 50+1 rule in German professional soccer, it announced on June 16, 2025.

News from On 31 May 2025, 19 skulls from an anthropological collection held by the Institute of Anatomy at Leipzig University were laid to rest in a ceremony in New Orleans.

The Bavarian Danube Moss was once the largest fen in southern Germany. Since the late 18th century, the moss has been systematically drained and has since lost its natural character. A new interdisciplinary study led by the University of Leipzig now provides the first reconstruction of these profound changes over a period of 237 years and has been published in the renowned "E&G Quaternary Science Journal".

The recently launched nationwide citizen science project GartenDiv will be the first to research plant diversity in Germany's gardens.

Wild bees are considered food specialists. They often only collect their nectar from a few or even a single plant.

Fascism is not a template, but an ideology of action, emphasizes historian Dr. Daniel Hedinger from the University of Leipzig.