Working with an international consortium, scientists at Leipzig University have identified new genes that may play a role in chronic kidney disease. They analysed data from more than 900,000 people and found effects that in some cases differed between men and women. These new findings may help…

The proverb “necessity is the mother of invention” has been used to describe the source from which our cultural evolution springs. After all, need in times of scarcity has forced humans to continually invent new technologies that have driven the remarkable cumulative culture of our species. But an…

At the first international plenary meeting of the DFG Priority Programme „On the Way to the Fluvial Anthroposphere“, which took place from 17th to 19th January at Leipzig University, 70 researchers from Great Britain, Slovakia, Croatia, Austria, Switzerland and Germany came together to get an idea…

Leipzig University has successfully passed the first stage of the Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments and has been invited to submit two full proposals. The research projects described in its “Breathing Nature” and “Leipzig Center of Metabolism” draft proposals are the…

Developmental psychologist Dr Leon Li will spend the next two years at Leipzig University researching how unethical behaviour arises in groups. The Humboldt Fellow recently joined the Faculty of Education.

Artificial intelligence using neural networks performs calculations digitally with the help of microelectronic chips. Physicists at Leipzig University have now created a type of neural network that works not with electricity but with so-called active colloidal particles. In their publication in the…