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Toward a healthy study-life balance

Taking a breather from the demands of university life: LMU students talk about how hobbies recharge their batteries.

Three cheers for science!

The Science Slam at LMU made abundantly clear: People get really excited about the creative and entertaining presentation of scientific content.

Keeping time with an atomic nucleus

Nuclear clocks could allow scientists to probe the fundamental forces of the universe in the future. LMU researchers have made a crucial advance in this area as part of an international collaboration.

Portrait of Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Gerd Sutter

Pathogens on the move

MERS, Covid-19, monkeypox: infectious diseases are increasingly passing from animals to humans. LMU virologist Gerd Sutter explains what we can do about it – from the magazine EINSICHTEN.

Colon cancer: curcumin activates tumor suppressive signaling pathway

LMU researchers have identified a signaling pathway via which curcumin can suppress the metastasis of colorectal cancer cells.

Beyond the limits of light

The research team led by physicist Ralf Jungmann is using a new technique to enhance fluorescence microscopy to the Ångstrom scale – far below the resolution limit of conventional light microscopy.

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Research Summary: new publications

Media research: steering viewers’ attention on video-on-demand platforms

Photosynthesis gone astray: Rubisco inhibitor degradation

Quantum simulation: chiral spin liquids and non-Abelian anyons

5.-7. June 2023 | „Responsibility: It's a Matter of Time“

Lecture series by the Center for Ethics and Philosophy with Professor Susan Wolf

15 June 2023 | Motivation, not procrastination!

The workshop deals with learning techniques and time management to combat procrastination

Until 24 July 2023 | Exhibition: The White Rose – then and now

Drawing on documents, the exhibition portraits the members at the heart of the White Rose movement.

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Working the land to save the climate

Reforestation and a new approach to land management will play a crucial role in efforts to mitigate climate change.

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Viruses: the invisible danger from the wilds

Monkeypox, COVID-19, Ebola: viruses that jump from animals to humans can cause pandemics. LMU scientists are studying the tricks of the pathogens and developing suitable vaccines.

Origin of life: Molecular gastronomy

What was the recipe for the "Ursuppe" from which life emerged? The early steps in the evolution of life some four billion years ago.

Childhood in the jungle

Do children who grow up surrounded by untamed wilds develop a different concept of nature to Western urban kids? Anthropologist Francesca Mezzenzana is exploring what the consequences are.

The strange world of the ocean deep

Life exists even miles under the sea, where microorganisms create peculiar ecosystems. Geobiologist William Orsi explores this fascinating wilderness in the remote depths, a place where time has another meaning.

The first dropout

Living in and with the wilderness: Literary scholar Klaus Benesch on the brilliant author and philosopher Henry David Thoreau and his influence on today’s world-weary generation

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