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This is now the seventh time students are able to take part in the German-Swedish student project REXUS/BEXUS (rocket/balloon experiments for University students). The project offers student teams the opportunity to carry out experiments with stratosphere balloons and research rockets. A great bonus…

The excessive use of nitrogenous fertilizers in agriculture contaminates our groundwater, rivers, and coastal waters with nitrates. The fields are over-fertilized because farmers have no way of knowing precisely how much fertilizer is needed in the soil. Scientists have now come up with an answer:…

They are 1,000-times smaller than a grain of sand and 20-times thinner than a human hair. This is the size of a novel class of microcapsules aptly called Submicron Colloidosomes. Colloidosomes have a great potential to be used in medical therapies. Materials scientist from the University of Bremen…

26 secondary school [Oberschule] teachers in Bremen have just taken up studies on the completely new part-time Master’s program. Graduates from the two-year program will be awarded the title “Master of Education Inklusive P?dagogik”, an additional degree in special education to augment their first…

Who hasn’t experienced the something similar? The apartment is now looking immaculate after a long-overdue clean-up, all those other little jobs have been taken care of, and now there is no excuse left for not getting back to work on that unfinished written assignment. Feeling lonely and tired, you…

This is the 5th time the University of Bremen has invited female students from all disciplines, including further education, to attend the Female Engineers’ Summer University. This time it takes place between 19th and 30th of August 2013. Three Weeks of Summer Studies in Bremen Between 19th August…

Recently, Radio Bremen reported that the University of Bremen is to cut 450 jobs over the next two years. This is incorrect. As has been known for some time, the University does have to cut a total of 130 jobs, namely 50 in technical and administrative areas and 82 in mid-level faculty. Why has…

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New study on the impact of the Tohoku quake on the ocean bed

Investigations have shown that earthquakes play a greater role in triggering the release of greenhouse gasses than previously thought. A new study published in Nature Geoscience online on 28th July 2013 reports on the findings of an international research team who investigated the aftermath of an…