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In fairy tales, the king's son usually has to solve three tasks in order to win the princess's hand. This, however, is nothing compared to the challenges which await sperm on its way to the egg - or, increasingly, which spell failure. According to a number of studies and reports in the media, male fertility is in danger.

Over the past few years, Marcelo de Lima Galvao and Angela Schwering examined the navigational abilities of more than 1,000 test persons in the driving simulator.

Legal historians in Cluster of Excellence make the work of Dutch legal scholar and moral theologian Leonardus Lessius accessible for the first time - Developed innovative legal and ethical principles

The European research initiative on Future Battery Technologies, BATTERY 2030+, starts the next phase to develop high-performance batteries for a climate-neutral society.

In working on individual cases, the researchers use the so-called Children's Register in the International Tracing Service set up by the Allies in 1948.

Everyone in Germany wastes around 75 kilos of food every year, according to the German Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL).

BMBF provides scientists at Münster University with 2.5 million euros / Participation in the large-scale experiments Einstein Telescope, IceCube, KATRIN and XENONnT Investigating the basic buil

In what is a great success for the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Münster, the Clinical Research Unit "Male Germ Cells" will continue to receive funding - amounting to 5.7 million euros - from the German Research Foundation (DFG).

Coffee - Germany's most popular drink - is grown by around 20 million small-scale farmers worldwide, who often live below the poverty line.

Whether it is press releases, posts, reports in the university newspaper, podcasts, blog entries, lectures or events for children and school students: in all its diversity, science communication - inf

A large X made of metal in the middle of the Teutoburg Forest represents the symbolic end of a project which lasted close on nine years.

Catalysts are commonly used to reduce pollutants released in car exhaust. In order to manufacture catalytic filters with even higher efficiency, industry is increasingly relying on innovative mathematical models and machine learning (ML).

The corona pandemic has turned everyday life and work on its head. In this interview with Norbert Robers, Rector Prof. Johannes Wessels explains what the crisis means for the University of Münster, and how the University is dealing with the consequences.

Prof. Traugott Roser from the Faculty of Protestant Theology spent four and a half weeks hiking across Northern Spain on the "Camino Francés", following the old pilgrim's route of St. James.

In a recent publication, Nora Markard , Professor of International Public Law and International Human Rights Protection at the University of Münster, looked at the issues of sea rescues, places of safety and the behaviour of the European Union (EU).

On March 6, 35 international scientists set off on a special research trip. With the research vessel "Sonne" they set off from Cape Town in South Africa into the Indian Ocean to study the submarine uplift "Marion Rise" on the so-called Southwest Indian Ridge.

University of Münster Collaborative Research Centre 1348 ' "Dynamic Cellular Interfaces" ' offers work placements for senior school students majoring in Biology For two weeks, every spring and autumn,

Carrying out interdisciplinary research and broadening scientific horizons / Cells in Motion Interfaculty Centre at the University of Münster supports career steps Acquiring funding for your own research ideas, gaining experience in various working groups or presenting your research findings at international conferences - these are all important steps on the career ladder in science.

Guest scientist from Nigeria wants to counteract problems in sub-Saharan Africa / Cooperation with Center for Soft Nanoscience at the University of Münster In Sub-Saharan Africa, farmers rush their fresh fruits and vegetables to market to sell them before they go bad.