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Art history to go!

The interactive MunichArtToGo app invites you to learn about Munich. Professor Christian Fuhrmeister and LMU students played a major role in shaping the app.

Hunting anything that flies

From starlings to cranes: Neolithic people hunted a wide range of different birds. This has been revealed by investigations at the famous archeological site of Göbekli Tepe.

A mother claps her hands while playing with her child

Origin of cultural learning: babies imitate because they are imitated

LMU study shows that babies learn to imitate others because they themselves are imitated by caregivers

In search of the unfairness gremlin

Professor Christoph Kern combines know-how from the worlds of social science and information technology. He investigates the fairness of automated decision-making approaches.

Preventing future pandemics

LMU is opening a state-of-the-art building on the Campus Oberschleissheim that will house the Institute of Infection Medicine and Zoonoses of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine.

The many faces of depression

Why are so many young people developing mental illnesses? And what can be done about it? An interview with Ellen Greimel, a child and adolescent psychotherapist at LMU.

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Research Summary: new publications

Identified: key regulators involved in genesis of multiple sclerosis lesions

Visual search: context facilitates more effective strategies

Biology: new species of leaf-tailed gecko discovered in Madagascar

6 - 8 Ocotober 2023 | Climate Conference of Youth

Exciting discussions for a sustainable, more environmentally friendly world

Until 7 October 2023 | "Flower Power Festival"

Celebrate nature in the city. This will be the motto of the Flower Power Festival Munich 2023.

Historical eyeglasses of the collection of the Eye Clinic of the LMU Munich

Until 13 October 2023 | The LMU Eye Hospital collection

An exhibition of objects from the Late Middle Ages to the 20th century.

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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.

Structures in the fog

AI tools such as the Stable Diffusion model developed by Björn Ommer are teaching computers how to see and paint. A portrait

"Like a stage, platform by platform”

Railway stations symbolize the onset of modernity. They stand for connections and encounters. We join Margit Dirscherl, a Germanist who studies the fascination that railway stations have held for writers, on a whistle-stop tour through literary history.