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Playing with the source of world literature

Enrique Jiménez uses AI to make texts that are thousands of years old readable. Now the Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Literatures is making his platform accessible to the public.

Eine Helferin erklärt einer Studentin etwas auf dem LMU Campustag.

Getting a taste of university life

What is it like to study at LMU? LMU’s Campus Day on 4 February can give you a valuable insight. For the first time since the start of the pandemic, this year’s event will be held on the premises.

© S. Beck / Saqqara Saite Tombs Project, University of Tübingen

The chemistry of mummification – Traces of a global network

A international team of researchers from LMU and University of Tübingen is unveiling the secrets of ancient Egyptian embalming.

© picture alliance / Sergi Reboredo | Sergi Reboredo

Viruses: the invisible danger from the wilds

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

ERC grants: two LMU research projects successful

The European Research Council has awarded two Consolidator Grants to LMU researchers. Projects from the fields of pharmacy and history receive funding.

Biological patterns: directed by intracellular flows

LMU physicists led by Erwin Frey have shown how fluid flows influence the formation of complex patterns

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Research Summary: new publications

Energy: New technology to generate green hydrogen

Climate change: Scale of degradation in Amazon rainforest is concerning

Physics: Mysterious properties of twisted trilayer graphene revealed

11 Feb 2023 | Mathematics on Saturday

A lecture by Prof. Dieter Kotschick on the topic "Geometry of Numbers"

7 Feb 2023 | Science and the culture of remembrance

How we learn from history: Event in the context of the Science Talks

Until 2 April 2023 | New Light from Pompeii

Special exhibition hosted by the Bavarian State Collection of Antiques, featuring 180 original bronzes from Naples and Pompeii

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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.

Looking again – and again

Buenos Aires, Mumbai, Shanghai: A project in art history features virtual rambles in the cities where exiled artists found new inspiration.

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.

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

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.

Rescue vessels work at the site of the stuck container ship Ever Given on the Suez Canal, Egypt

Strategies to counter the domino effect

If replenishment falters at a single point only, complex global supply chains are in danger of collapsing. Economist Lisandra Flach explores how these production chains can be made more resilient.

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