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LMU Research and Innovation Research Magazine 02/2026 - Memory

What remains, and what fades away? How our body stores experiences, how nature preserves its history, and how societies decide what is remembered—and what is not.

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Lost in the Mediterranean

“What happens to those who do not survive the crossing?” Anthropologist Gerhild Perl researches how relatives and societies deal with these disappearances.

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Bringing masterpieces by women out of the shadows

Once a highly successful playwright, Elise Bürger languished in obscurity until LMU researchers set out on her trail.

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Defenders with a memory

Immunologist Reinhard Obst explores how the immune system remembers an infection or vaccination the body has overcome.

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Rhythm

Why life depends on regular repetition, how rhythm structures language, society, and music, governs body and brain, and shapes natural processes.

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How is AI changing literature? Which new realities do we face as the climate tips? And could the universe itself be working quite differently than we thought?

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The city as a hothouse, overheated societies, cosmic forges of planets, and geothermal energy from magma chambers. We explore the various aspects of heat and show how to keep a cool head.

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